Ratheon Systems Integrator talks about needing the fruits of the spirit at work. This is a clip from Christians Engineers Discuss Their Work which is a session in the Jesus and Your Job Small Group Study Series.

Transcript:

My job essentially is to bridge the gap between very smart people on radars and control systems with the ship-builders. They’re very different worlds. Fruits of the spirit are something that I have to focus in on quite a bit: my patience, my gentleness. We have a lot of smart people and a lot of great ideas, but they don’t necessarily know how to share it. It’s not their giftedness. My giftedness – the way God is using me – is to try to pull that out of them so that they can communicate better. 

I was having a very difficult email discussion with somebody on my team who wasn’t doing what I needed them to do. I was getting somewhat angry. Like, “Can’t we get this over this hump? We’ve been working on this for so long!” I had to step back and I had to say, “Lord, I can feel my temperature rising. I need patience on this. I know I’m emotional right now and it’s not a good time for me to respond. I need to step back.”

Just that quick prayer happens, I would say, moment by moment. Literally my last work day I had that intervention of prayer to deal with a difficult situation.