Eastern Lightning | God Guides Me to Cast Off Arrogance, I Relate Well to Manager (Part 1)

God Guides Me to Cast Off Arrogance, I Relate Well to Manager

May 11, 2018

By Jinqu

I’m a model painter, and have been working in a foundry for five or six years. I’m sure that I am a veteran worker. With my excellent professional skill, I was spoken highly of by the factory leaders and we were in good relationships. But recently, the manager often went against me by finding fault with my work, which made me depressed and suppressed.

My Products Got a Negative Remark and I Was Annoyed

One day, Manager Di asked me to paint more than two hundred models with white latex. I finished the work as carefully as usual. The next day, however, when Manager Di looked at the dried models, he unpleasantly said to me, “The paint is too thin. It’s unsightly. Paint again with more latex!” Hearing his commanding voice, I was extremely reluctant inside. I thought: I’ve been doing this work for years. Surely I don’t know better than you? Don’t command me! You’re just a factory manager who knows nothing but intimidating workers by authority. And besides, it took me a long time to paint these models, but now you want me to paint them again. It is intentional! Being annoyed, I retorted disapprovingly, “I’ve been working for so many years. Surely I don’t know how to paint? The models will bubble if painted too much…” “Shut up and do as I told you! Paint again if you want to stay here; if not, just get out of my factory!” He interrupted me and said abruptly. I was very angry at his words, but I had no choice but to do as he commanded to hold my job down.

Reluctantly, I repainted those models with more latex, which resulted in more bubbles as I expected. Then the manager had to have these models smoothed and polished. Seeing this, I couldn’t let it go, thinking: It’s all your fault. I gotta talk to you. You shouldn’t pretend to be an expert and disturb my work. Then I said to the manager: “Look, I have told you not to paint too thick, but you didn’t listen…” The manager gave me a dirty look and left before I finished talking. Watching him leaving and picturing his finding fault with my work imperiously, I had a feeling of being wronged but couldn’t complain. The more I thought, the angrier I became.

Guided by God’s Word, I Recognized That My Arrogance Was the Direct Cause

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After I got home at night, I prayed to God, “God, why has this thing happened to me? Why does the manager often go against me? God, I really get mad at the manager’s attitude towards me. I feel so sad. Please guide and enlighten me!” After praying, I read a passage of God’s word which said: “Corrupt people without any status will also frequently lose control. Their anger is frequently caused by damage to their individual benefits. In order to protect their own status and dignity, corrupt mankind will frequently vent their emotions and reveal their arrogant nature. Man will flare up in anger and vent his emotions in order to defend the existence of sin, and these actions are the ways with which man expresses his dissatisfaction. These actions brim with defilement; they brim with schemes and intrigues; they brim with man’s corruption and evil; more than that, they brim with man’s wild ambitions and desires.” “Under what circumstances are people usually arrogant? (When they have personal capital, some gifts, some skills, or they can do something practical.) If you say that, then is a person who doesn’t have any gifts or have any skills not arrogant? (Yes.) This is one condition where a type of arrogant disposition is expressed. It is expressed under this condition … as soon as someone becomes arrogant they lose all reason, they don’t know shame, and they become foolish. They are just foolishly arrogant. This is all very arrogant and is the revealing and expression of arrogance, isn’t it? … With an arrogant disposition there will certainly be an expression of arrogance, and there will certainly be arrogant words and actions. Isn’t that the case? (Yes.) That is correct.”

Thanks to the revelation of God’s word, I understood why I was suppressed. It was because I was too arrogant to give in to anyone. As a veteran worker, I always thought I was trustworthy and my opinion was right. And the manager shouldn’t yell at me imperiously but take my advice. So when he didn’t show respect to me, I was annoyed and retorted him to save face. But when I failed to stop him from putting on official airs and finding fault with me, I was more suppressed and annoyed. After reading God’s word, I began to reflect on myself and realized that what I had manifested was all arrogant and even malicious disposition. I had been trying to fight against the manager’s official airs for sustaining my dignity and building up my prestige in the public. I was too senseless. Not an ounce of the likeness of a Christian to be found! I was reminded of the great and holy God humbly hiding among us. He never relies on status nor shows off or boasts, but supplies us by expressing the truth silently and equally interacts with us. On the contrary, I am only a tiny creature, a corrupted man, but always showed off and boast in the public, trying to make others see that I was more knowledgeable than them. How ugly I have been! With my ugly disposition being recognized, I made a resolution before God that I would never live by arrogant disposition again. I would put myself aside to be humble and patient, and interact normally with others.

With Arrogant Nature Coming Out Once More, I Quarreled With the Manager Again

Afterward, whatever the manager arranged for me, I would do as he demanded, so we seldom quarreled. After some time, I thought that I had some changes in my arrogant disposition and I was more patient with the manager. However, when Manager Di found fault with my work again, I was still annoyed with him so much that my arrogant nature involuntarily came out again.

He once said to me, “Look, you’ve done a bad job on this model. The lining holes are not well painted. And it should be thicker. Here’s another thing, don’t be so hurry on the work you started two days ago. It’s not urgent. I told you to put it aside, but you didn’t listen. You know that there’s not enough room for those models in our factory. You are so stubborn!” Hearing his words, my heart sank. I thought: I am working well. Why do you often find fault with my work and scold me? I am not easy to bully! So I couldn’t help but retort, “You criticize me if I don’t work, and find fault with me when I do work. Why are you so hard to please?” Manager Di just ignored me and left. At that time, I felt terribly wronged, firmly believing that he was intentionally going against me. And I didn’t want to stand him anymore.

For several days afterward, I kept going against the manager. I retorted whenever he criticized me only to make him find fault with me more frequently. I was agitated inside and felt cheap. I thought: I can’t work here anymore if you goes on finding fault with me. At the worst, I will turn hostile to you and I will hunt a job in another place. It is no big deal.

 God’s Word Is the Best Medicine for Arrogance

I was sad because of the constant quarrels with the manager, so I went back to God to pray to Him and seek the truth. I saw God’s words: “No matter how much injustice you feel you have suffered, how much sweat and effort you have put in, or how much your reputation, vanity, and honor have been damaged, these are in fact secondary; the important thing is to turn your state around. What state? Whether people are in a situation of making mistakes or not making mistakes, whatever it may be—even in normal circumstances—they harbor a kind of hardened, rebellious thing in the depths of their hearts. Moreover, they have a form of logical thinking in their hearts that says, ‘As long as what I do is right and my intentions are right, You should not deal with me, so I do not have to submit.’ This is human reasoning, is it not? They do not mention whether what they have done conforms to the truth or what consequences it leads to; they say, ‘As long as I have a good heart and don’t have malicious intentions, You should accept me.’ This is human reasoning, is it not? This is human reasoning, and in it there is no submission. You regard your own reasoning as the truth, and treat the truth as superfluous. The truth is only reasonable to you when it is in line with your own reasoning; when it is not in line with your own reasoning, you think it is unreasonable.”

 From God’s words, I knew that my quarrels with the manager were caused by my own arrogant and hardened disposition. I believed that the manager shouldn’t find fault with me when I did nothing wrong, otherwise, I had reason to fight back. Now that I had made concessions, he should have stopped bullying me. So when he infringed on my interests by finding fault with my work, I couldn’t stand it and fought back with Satan’s life philosophy of “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” I even thought about responding with strikes. Now I found that I was living by Satan’s life philosophy that “I am my own lord throughout heaven and earth.” I was arrogant, obstinate and malicious. There was no change in my disposition at all. Before that, I thought I had some changes in disposition, but now I knew they were merely external changes, and I was just following rules. I was restraining myself from going against the manager, not genuinely practicing the truth. God revealed me in this way to make me change so that I would no longer live by Satan’s philosophy but by truth which I should practice. This was God’s will and God’s demand of me.

To be continued

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