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April 26. We Are Our Own Biggest Competition.
Will we bridge or fill the gaps in our faith, families, and businesses?
Businesses are always in competition. Sometimes the competition is internal between departments battling for parts of the budget. They can also be in competition in the marketplace with a product or service with another provider. But as owners, we face a different kind of competition as well.
The competition of the needs of our families verses the needs of the business. These personal needs of the family can even be in direct conflict with one another from time to time. When that occurs, decisions will be made, and they are likely to occasionally lead to a feeling of guilt somewhere.
The decisions that lead to a feeling of guilt might be the most difficult. Regardless of how beneficial the result might be, the guilt needs addressed. It needs to be reconciled. We also need to be mindful that our customers and other businesses could be suffering through guilt as well.
Guilt is a saboteur in many ways, but it certainly is to our mindset. As leaders, our ability to recognize guilt and to develop a process for reconciliation might change our family, team and organization. If we reconcile any guilt quickly, our purpose can get back on track quicker for better results.
Where might you be feeling some guilt because of your decisions of the past? What can you do in the next seven days to reconcile it? Our focus can be distracted when guilt is being a saboteur. What is the first step?
As brothers and sisters in Christ, we know the power of forgiveness. We also know the robbing power of guilt. It drains us of energy and love. It keeps us from being close with Jesus. It says in Proverbs, "Fools make fun of guilt, but the godly acknowledge it and seek reconciliation." Proverbs 14: 9 NLT.
Let us focus on acknowledging our own guilt and ask to be reconciled. When we have it, we can feel like it is a great chasm that we think we can ignore. Ignoring it does not make it go away. The judgment can stop when you are reconciled.
So just how long will you wait for reconciliation? Where is the guilt in your last week? Perhaps we can find some small starting point and get practiced at the process of reconciling. We would be wise to remember that our brains want to be right. Being guilty means that we were not right at some point.
That is what allows our subconscious mind to ignore it which tolerates it instead of reconciling it. It wants to forget we were wrong. The brain does not want to focus on the wrongs, it always wants to be right. Our neural pathways in the brain can change though. Research has proven that.
Are we willing to take the first step for ourselves to be reconciled? What is the first step you can make in the next seven days?
Let us pray, Heavenly Father, we fall short constantly. We remove ourselves from you with our actions, thoughts, and words. We acknowledge that we fall short but affirm that you are always there. We come to you now. We are taking the first step to be reconciled to you.
Help us each step of the way along this path. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,
