God’s Resume
With graduations coming next month, many people and students, high school, college, and beyond, are no doubt working on updating their resumes for a potential new job, college application, or graduate school. Depending on your age and work experience, some resumes may need more work than others.
A good resume highlights all of your positive qualities, all of the things that will make you stand out ahead of the others. So think about the things we include on our resume: personal information like address, phone number, email, education, degrees, experiences, projects or awards. Then comes the employment history. Have you had any jobs? Only one? Are you a job hopper? Another section is the references. The people you are willing to name that will speak your praises to the random person that calls and basically asks your friend, boss, or work acquaintance to tell them how you are as a person. Resumes are huge; they can make or break a person in certain situations.
What do you think God's resume looks like? I Googled God's resume to see what would pop up. People have written articles and blogs about this, but one stood out. The resume paper was a light blue paper with a sea of clouds and angels sporadically laid out. Original, and I love the symbolism. God was applying for a managerial position for mankind. It listed his address as "Everywhere." Basically, it said that He was up for the challenge and He had an extremely impressive list of accomplishments including creating the world, mankind, everything, and He felt very strongly that He could help this person with running his life. The English teacher in me loved this concept because it was clever, light hearted but with a very serious message.
This also got me wondering if God would be impressed by my resume? Now I'm not talking about work resume. I'm talking about my faith resume. Is it as relevant as it should be? Does it need some editing and revising? For those of you that know me, you know my answer is, "YES!! It needs to be looked at more often."
I would like for God to see my heart and that I truly see Him as my Father. I would like for Him to see that despite many setbacks, failures, and mistakes, I keep getting up, sometimes slowly, but I get up and try to do better. I know He sees my amazing kids because I know the love He pours into them every minute of every day. I hope He sees my efforts to learn and that even on my less than stellar days, I read and try to learn something new about Him.
I know He sees the smudges, errors, and incomplete sentences on my resume, but I also know that He is the best at gently editing my work and always has my best interest at heart. My plan every day is to add to my faith resume - pray more, listen, be quiet, learn, help, love more. My question to each of you is have you updated your resume lately? If not, is it in need of some of God's attention? Let Him be your editor, your leader, your guide. Allow Him to lead you to your destiny.