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I’m offering ten suggestions for sharing God’s love where you work. Here are suggestions five and six:
5. Help others with their workload when you can.
Maybe you have an assistant who helps you, and you know she or he is just overloaded with work at the moment. If you said, “Hey, I can stay an extra hour tonight and help get that done,” don’t you think that could really be an effective way to communicate God’s love? Or maybe you know that a co-worker is struggling with a certain assignment, doesn’t know how to get started. If you’ve got some experience or expertise that would help them, just stop what you’re doing and help them out.
Obviously, you have your own work to do, which cannot be neglected, but for sure there are times when stopping to help someone else is just the right, thoughtful thing to do.
6. Look for opportunities to congratulate and compliment people any time you can.
Think about it: aren’t there times in the day when you think something nice about someone but you don’t express it? I try to make myself verbalize the compliments I think. For example, if I like the outfit someone is wearing, and think, “That looks nice on her,” then why not say it to her. If I think, “He did a great job on that,” why not say it. I think we would be more encouraging to others if we simply determined to verbalize the compliments we think.
Also, look for ways to congratulate people on any accomplishment possible. “You lost five pounds? Wow, good job.” “I noticed you stayed late last night and finished that job. Thanks.” “Your daughter made a 3.8 on her grades this semester? Terrific!”
There are so many little things we can do in any given day to show love and concern for others, to demonstrate that we are thinking about someone beside ourselves. We live in a world that is pretty self-centered, but as servants of Jesus Christ, we are called to “look not only to your own interest, but also to the interests of others,” as we read in Philippians 2:4.
These things we can do because we have the motivation of God’s Spirit within us, and the power he imparts to us, and believe me, God’s love will be felt as we intentionally seeks ways to share God’s love on our jobs.