When A Christian Wants to Mop the Floor with a Co-worker (796 hits)
Ever feel like you’re a modern day Jonah and the workplace is Nineveh? You don’t want to be there and God is shutting all doors of opportunities to leave? I completely understand.
God said He wouldn’t put more on us than we can bear, but Lord what about the times when my flesh is screaming because I’m Christian and I want to “mop the floor with my co-worker”? How much can one person take? I sit here reserved, but God did you see that?! God, I haven’t made it to Heaven yet and I don’t feel like being Christ-like at this moment. This person keeps trying you and taunting you like Peninnah did with Hannah (1 Samuel 1). If she says more thing Lord or comes at me sideways...
Okay, stop. Rewind. When a Christian woman wants to mop the floor with a co-worker, it’s imperative to quickly listen to the God (that still small voice that seems superloud in that moment) in you pushing back the rise in your flesh. As bad as it hurts you can’t act the way you want to anymore. Old things have passed away. Childish things are put behind you. You are not your own (Romans 12:1). Take spiritual note in knowing this as taking part in His sufferings. Hmm, longsuffering is a fruit of the spirit right? You have it in you. You’ve been in the faith long enough to realize that you eat meat and don’t need milk, so in other words, you know how to behave! You cannot be the old you and try to walk in a new destiny at the same time. This situation is giving you hope and a future. God is working this out for your good. This is the oil that is being pressed out of you for your perfume—a sweet smelling fragrance that pleases God and brings Him glory.
Believers must recognize that it’s not a Bible cliché. We indeed fight against principalities and powers, ruler of darkness and wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). It’s not that co-worker per se, it’s the spirit, the principality on and in that co-worker. Power recognizes power, so the devil knows who you are and will send a strategic attack to kill you, steal something from you or destroy you.
I hear you and you’re absolutely right; the spirit is willing but the flesh is indeed weak. Take a minute and reflect about Jesus was on the cross and how He could have called a legion of angels to come down and get them all, but he didn’t. Do not think for one second that Jesus didn’t have the power to come down off that cross and handle His business with those who crucified Him, cussed at Him, mocked and beat Him to include those who spat in His face. Jesus chose to see beyond their hurt and recognize their need. He saw them (well me and you too) as in need of a Savior and a light in our darkness. You are the light for that co-worker. You have that same power to overlook a transgression that beckons your flesh to want to put “saved” on hold.
I say all this because I almost went there today with another co-worker. I’m on the side of the righteous, but I sho’ nuff felt a righteous indignation to commence to mopping the floor with a colleague. Had I went there, it would have caused a rippled affect. It would have brought dishonor to my Lord and grieved the Holy Spirit, tarnished the kingdom depicting me as another Christian hypocrite, and dismissing me as a witness for the gospel.
So what should happen when a Christian wants to mop the floor with a co-worker?
•Realize it’s the principality, power, or ruling spirit out to dismantle you •Find a Prayer Closet ASAP! Pray—for the person(s) and you •Forgive them—so you won’t give that spirit rule over you or Satan an open door •Trust God and know hurt people…hurt people, repeating foolishness. Healed people forgive, restore and move on
