Hey, Hey, Good Morning To You!

Have you met people going to work who look so very much like they would rather be going somewhere else? Yes, your entire office/department/crew or whatever. Okay, maybe we should ask if you have ever met some nut who is not going to work and seems to be enjoying himself very much. Once in a blue moon perhaps, and you tried your very best not to call down the fire of heaven upon that person because you know Jesus wouldn't like it. How about that really rare bird, the one who is going to work and enjoys it more than anything in that moment. In other words, the time has come to go to work, and that is what she wants to do more than anything. When the time comes to go home, she will want more than anything to do that too, but for now the time and the enjoyment are right there together. Should we gather together and give her a good smackin' around, or what?

Work is not always enjoyable for most people. Kind of an understatement there, but that seems to be the way the world is going these days. I wonder though, if work is so different for that person who enjoys the work so much. Maybe, he or she has made a contract with their eyes not to look for ways in which the job falls short of expectations or what might be better in some way. For to see one bad thing in a situation is to open the gates for all the others. We look at a person and say to the self, he/she has a nice... and the way to lust is opened. We look at a neighbor and think, I wish I had a car/pool/thing like that and the way is opened for coveting. We look at the neighbor's husband or wife, think the wrong thing, and both lust and coveting jump in and beat us to a fine heidee-ho. The problem lies not in the persons, job, or things around us, but in the mind and heart.

God gave us a new heart in Christ, but we have a mind of flesh that still looks out at the world and feels those wrong desires. In place of a cheerful greeting, we grumble at each other on a Monday and try to think of something else we would rather be doing. Hmm, perhaps a cheerful greeting would be a good place to start. Hey, hey and a great good morning to you! Jesus loves you! Have a great day at work today!

Bucky