no.180 131027 Thank you for surrounding myself with non-Christians

Corns!

Ever since I started my part time job, I am learning a lot of things. Let me begin by telling you that I have a headache right at this moment as I write this post. It's because I inhaled cigarette smokes - not intentionally though, because I HATE its smell.

Walking home today made me realize that I've been surrounding myself mostly with Christians, and I am having a hard time interacting with non-Christians. Today's employees meeting pretty much sums up what I mean. I'm not saying that they're bad people because they are nice and I do think that it's not a bad place to work at.

I want to share three things that bothered me from today's meeting - 1. people swearing, 2. people lying and 3. people smoking. Let's talk about the first one. I am hearing a lot of swear words here and there when I am with them. Although they don't swear at me or each other, they casually use these bad words. We all know that these words can be replaced with nicer words. Right? About people lying - it is probably common for people who work at retail stores to have this bad habit, especially people who are on commission. It can be understandable, but you lying shouldn't be used as a way to benefit oneself. The last point, I may sound judgemental, but whenever I discover someone I know likes to or is addicted to smoking, I get very disappointed in him or her. I rarely have to deal with this third issue because it doesn't affect me whether someone smokes or not, unless they do it in front of me.

I'm not saying Christians don't swear, or lie, or smoke. Even myself, although I would never smoke, I have lied before and swore before (although not to other people!). I'm also not saying that every non-Christian I met are like this because I know some non-Christ followers who are nicer than us Christians. I am just sharing my recent experience at this retail store.

It was weird that I came across this today because I have experience working with non-Christians before. I wonder what suddenly made me feel this way. It made me think that Christians aren't the only people on earth. I should consider this place as my mission field. On the way home, I was trying to think of what I should do with the people I met through this retail job. I wondered if I would ever get a chance to share my faith with them. I also worried what the things mentioned above are gonna influence me. However, God works in strange ways! As I have shared a few days ago, I got a chance to talk to one of my non-Christian friend at volunteering so randomly! So I wouldn't be surprised if God gave me a time to talk to one of my co-workers about Him one day.