All Alone?

Men are great at the workplace, where we are apt to live. We don’t live as our true selves. No, we live as crafted and false versions of our true selves. Work is just one area where we try to be better than others, and not what God intended us to be. We create our own images. What makes work so different to the other areas of our lives? At work the prevailing culture is all about self: to outperform, to get that promotion, to achieve, and to get ahead of others. We become someone else we create on our own, self-focused. We become different to what God wanted us to be originally.

This is so often permeated by greed, pride and much more. Let’s read Proverbs 18:1; “Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.” Do you get it? A men who seeks desire for himself, being self-focused and, ignoring what God desires from him, can be destructive. He goes and seeks worldly wisdom and lives by it – God’s wisdom and His plans disappear out the back door. In the end he works ‘alone’ and all because it becomes about self.

You and I can change all this. Our workplaces can become desolate and lonely places. No real relationships grow in the office and everything is superficial and materialistic. Is that who you really want to be? The man who only ‘acts’ out his life without any foundation or truth to it? Betray that kind of prevailing culture my friend. But don’t do it alone. It’s a great burden to try and go it alone and to make changes to your life, to rid yourself of that ‘alone and lonely’ false office type of person. Be a man and own up to that problem. Be the man God planned from the beginning. Find someone close to you and fight for each other. Be accountable to each other. Then seek God in prayer and ask for His guidance and help. Don’t be that man that lives with a false and lonely identity. Become a God-fearing man who is seen for who he truly is. If you need help, please feel free to contact me at nelson.canha@gmail.com and I’ll pray for you and mentor you on this journey. Amen!