April 13. Do You Have A Job Description Or A Suggestion?

Job descriptions are meaningful for employees and employers. Without a description, one can wander about an organization looking for activity without purpose. Is our purpose more important than a description of duties?

I think we want our support teams to know why we make up a team and keep it working. We are less effective if isolated into a silo of activity without connection to a purpose. When we know the purpose, our job description is more likely to be amended.

We are more flexible to the purpose instead of being set in our ways, and only our ways. If you are the owner or leader of an organization today, what is your purpose? It might not be the same as it was when you started your company.

If you do not have your purpose identified with clarity, maybe others in your organization are struggling because of it. Regardless of whether you are an owner or not, what is the first thing you can do to create clarity with your purpose and your job description? What can you do today about that?

Jesus shared the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. The parable closes by sharing that if the people would not follow Moses and the prophets, that they will not even follow someone that rises from the dead. Maybe the parable is teaching us that as human beings, we can be stubborn.

Our minds can get set upon what we experience, read, and are told. It can be difficult in this world to define our purpose because we have the old way and the new reborn way. Which purpose will we live out?

As Christians, if we allow ourselves to only be defined by a job description, by what we experience, by what we read or are told, we will probably lead a shallow life. But our purpose has been shown by Christ. It is to follow him first and foremost. That is our purpose.

When we have that clearly set in our way of being, we can then fulfill with great joy, the job descriptions of this world. Let us not allow what we read or experience to limit us with our purpose. Where might you believe you are limited in your faith because of a job description?

Where have you limited others because of a job description you have placed on them? What is your larger purpose? How might you begin to reshape, with the help of others, what your limits are this week?

Let us pray, Heavenly Father, you are limitless. We thank you for the blessings of this world and of our experiences. But we ask today that you help us to remove the limitations that we have placed on ourselves. Sometimes we set expectations before setting or checking our purpose first.

When that happens, we can put the world and its priorities first instead of placing you first. Help us to lead a purposeful life. As brothers and sisters in Christ, might we help one another with Christian love. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,