It is in the intervals of our day that weakening and self-obsessed thoughts can take possession of us. It is when we have no need to be concentrated, and thought can dart where it will that it often darts to fear, fret and self-absorption.
Going to work is such a time. There is no need to concentrate on the journey. You know it so well. Go to work in Jesus. Talk with Him as you go.
Pray for the people you pass in the street and sit by in the coffee shop or lunch counter. How sad so many people seem when their faces are at rest ! What secret cares are gnawing at them ? Turn the widest stream of God’s love on them that can channel its way through your narrow but broadening heart. . . .
Enter your place of business with the Lord. See the people you work with through the eyes of the Savior. How long before they find out ? How long, at least, till they know there is something strangely different about you ? How long before they ask themselves: ‘What’s he got that I haven’t got ?’
Some people are not easy to work with. Am I easy to work with ? If the fault is in them, how would Jesus look at them? How much allowance would He make for the secret hurts and disappointments which have made them what they are ? One thing is certain: He wouldn’t allow their harshness or ill-manners to make Him ill-mannered too. He would still look on them with the Father’s love.
