Well Done My CHild

As a corporate manager and business owner part of my job was to do annual evaluations on my employees. I have a philosophy that if you get to evaluation time and your employee is surprised by their evaluation, you really haven’t done a good job as a manager. Evaluations should not contain surprises. If you are doing a good job, or a bad job a good manager will let you know at the time and not wait until the end of the year review.

If your boss invites you into their office, this could be a nervous time for you as you think about what they might say. You may wonder: Could there be a promotion with a pay increase? Or could I lose my job? Am I going to hear, “Well done” or “You’re done”? How does my boss really think I’ve been doing?

Some day at life’s end we are all going to be called into the office. Paul wrote, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” (2 Cor. 5:10).

I believe that God speaks to us regularly. We do not have to wait until judgment day to know how we are doing. We will not enter that future evaluation fearful of losing our salvation, nor will we desire personal benefit or human approval. But like our earthly supervisors with our job evaluations, won’t it be wonderful to hear the Master say, “Well done, good and faithful servant?”