I Hate My Job: A 7-Day Devotional Guide for Christian Working WomenSample

Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Application: Sister, this is a broken-hearted world full of broken-hearted people. Our calloused hearts lead us too quickly into cycles of resentment and apathy toward colleagues we have branded incompetent, unethical, abusive, and lazy. These poor souls are contending with the same "desperately sick" hearts as we are, with a grave difference: they may not have Christ. Imagine who you were and who you would still be without God's Word. Without Jesus's saving grace? Without the constant presence and intercession of the Holy Spirit? I shudder to think of living in this life with a terminal and hopeless failure of the heart. Be gentle to those in your workplace, and remember that it is only through the blood of Jesus Christ that your own heart has hope.

Prayer Suggestion: Write down the names of colleagues with whom you've experienced a failure to love. Thank God for the gift of the cross. Confess your wrongs to God, ask Him to "create in me a clean heart" (Psalms 51:10), and pray intentionally for each person on the list you made.