Processes, systems, structures … In the world of business, much emphasis is placed on the processes to achieve specific outcomes. Process is defined as a systematic series of actions directed to some end. We create customer service processes to generate satisfied customers and repeat business. We develop marketing processes to drive new customers / clients. We build efficient infrastructures (accounting, administration, technology) to minimize costs and maximize profits. It’s all about the result. Process is good based on the result.
God is far less concerned than we are about the result. God cares much more about the process. Becoming who God wants is more important than getting what God wants. Oswald Chambers writes in My Utmost for His Highest …
We must never put our dreams of success as God’s purpose for us. The question of getting to a particular end is a mere incident. What we call process, God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.
It is the process of depending upon God, not our focus on results, that will get us where God wants us to go.
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” (Prov 16:9)
