Lessons learned

With blogging about my job I just thought I would share with you some scriptures and lessons that Jesus is teaching me through this trial. I'll start with the following:

PROVERBS 15:18
hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
 But the slow to anger calms a dispute

My boss tends to fly off the handle a real lot and I am vastly learning that if I respond calmly that things go much better than my fleshly desire to get defensive.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10


 7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

This is what God was really been revealing to me. I am very weak emotional at work, and cannot take the pressure sometimes. I make mistakes a lot which is unexcusable to my boss. God has revealed to me that this weakness that I have is that His grace is sufficient for me for His strenght is perfected in my weakness, thereofore I will boast of my weakness in my job so that Christs power might rest in me!

And another:

Romans 12:19

Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[a]says the Lord.

God is showing me that through the injustice at work that I should not take revenge. It would be very easy to call the Union on certain violations and or the State on such things as people not taking lunch, etc. But I forgo this because I really sense that Jesus would rather be the one doing the judging instead.



Matthew 5:40-41

40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.


This means that I must do overtime even though I do not want to, even to the point of going up and beyond what is asked. My flesh recoils this but this is God's will for me I know.

1 Thessalonians
17pray continually 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Another hard one, to give thanks in the trials that I am having? That is really hard!

Ephesians 4:31
31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18
15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.
 16Be joyful always;17pray continually;18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Now this is one that God has really been working on me and changing me with. I need to have a positive attitude at work and not a bitter one. This is another thing that my bosses sighted me on.

And finally Jesus reminded me of this:

Romans 8:38-39 
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The bottom line is while I still have a lot of challenges, God has really changed my heart!