God's Surprising Work Title
Dr. Joey Faucette
Executive Coaching + Organizational Culture Transformation for HR Leaders & Small Business Owners ?? SHRM Recertification Provider ?? ICF PCC Certified
Jacob woke up from his sleep. He said, ‘God is in this place—truly. And I didn’t even know it!’ (Genesis 28:16, MSG)
We are consumed with titles.
Connect with someone on LinkedIn and what’s one of the first things you look for?
A title.
A title somehow represents who you are—your importance, the respect you deserve, and how the rest of us should regard you.
Of course any title that begins with “C” receives immediate importance, respect, and regard. “C” must stand for “Cream of the Crop,” right?
Despite Robin Sharma’s best efforts in The Leader Who Had No Title we still cling to them.
Since we do, what title would you give God?
Now before you say the obvious—CEO or Founder—think about it for a moment.
Read the Bible’s stories and you find folks who would give a similar safe answer and yet their lives paint a different picture.
Take Jacob for instance.
If you asked him, “Jacob, what title would you give God for the family business?,” he would have responded “CEO.”
And yet did Jacob act like God was CEO?
The list against is long and specific.
Jacob lied to his father Isaac, the owner of the family business, stealing the death-bed blessing just as he had tricked Esau into giving up his birthright earlier.
A business owner who’s a liar and a cheat. Does that sound like someone who considers God “CEO?”
Maybe you know someone like Jacob. Not just business owners, either. Leaders who profess one thing with their lips and live something else with their actions.
Perhaps you’ve played Jacob at some point in your career.
Okay, maybe you weren’t a liar and a cheat. Perhaps just a liar. Occasionally. Or, just a cheat. Rarely though, right?
Regardless of whether you’re habitual or every-now-and-then, sin is sin.
The disconnect between work and worship is real.
For all of us Jacobs—business people who claim God as CEO yet live as if we are—God actually serves in the role of CSO.
What’s a CSO?
Chief Surprise Officer.
One of the more active roles God serves in your work life is to surprise you.
Jacob is on the run from Esau whom he cheated out of majority shares of the family business. He’s running for his life.
Jacob falls asleep from exhaustion with a rock for a pillow, and has an incredible dream complete with angels, a stairway to heaven, and God Himself appears and promises to give Jacob the land on which he slept, an infinite number of descendants and then says, I’ll stay with you, I’ll protect you wherever you go…I’ll stick with you until I’ve done everything I promised you (v. 15).
Jacob’s reaction is predictable and priceless: ‘God is in this place—truly. And I didn’t even know it!’
God blesses a liar and cheat who stole the family business.
Surprise! Surprise!! Surprise!!!
God is present in your workplace and like Jacob, you may not know it.
Yes, your workplace is imperfect. There are liars and cheats there. At times, you may be one of them.
However God’s infinite, miraculous grace can transform even the most hypocritical sinner into a blessing at work—staying with you, protecting you, sticking with you until the Divine Promises are kept and your faith increases with greater joy at work so you love God and others more.
While you may act like the CEO of Brand You, God is the CSO who works for you.
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