WE’RE IN THE PROCESS
If you’re anything like me, then you’re probably sick and tired of hearing about THE PROCESS. It’s in the process! It will happen eventually! Things take time! Trust the process. I’m just so over all of the process speak and waiting on the process.
My question is why does there even need to be a process? So I began to study, process and its purpose. Here’s what I found out.
One definition of process is a sequence of interdependent and linked tasks, that when put together it transforms numerous inputs into a specific given output.
At each stage in it, there are various resources; such as people, time, energy, machines, money or whatever else, that can be used as inputs to be converted into a particular desired output. These outputs, then serve as inputs for the next stage in the process until a known goal or end result is reached.
In short, after all of that being said, a process is a series of events which produce a result. The contention is, that when a process is used, the goal/assignment is completed at a rate of five times faster than when there was no process in place.
Here’s an example:
Henry Ford took the head of his production team, Charles Sorensen, to an empty building in Detroit, which would eventually become the home of The Ford Motor Company, America’s first mass-produced car factory.
Ford explained his idea to his manager for a new production process. Instead of using one craftsman to create a singular product by himself, each and every craftsman would be taught to do one of the 84 simple, repetitive jobs required to complete the full assembly. With this process in place, the manufacturing time of the Model T was cut down significantly from 12.5 hours to 2.5 hours for completion of a vehicle.
Ford’s process built 15 million cars, and success was achieved.
God also has a process for us. And WE’RE IN THE PROCESS! Here’s a look at a process God used in the life of a woman named Ruth.
She was a young bride whose husband was killed suddenly. Her mother in law, lost not only Ruth’s husband, but her other son was also lost on that very same tragic day. In addition to losing her two sons, she also recently lost her husband as well. Both women were utterly mired in tragedy and grief. The mother in law was mortified and decided to return to her homeland. Ruth begged to be by her side. After much protest, her mother in law relented. So the two traveled back to her mother in laws homeland where they lived for a time in extreme poverty. Ruth eventually got a job as a migrant field worker picking up the leftover scraps. She worked hard and diligently every day. One day she was noticed by the royal wealthy landowner, whom she ultimately fell in love with and married.
God’s process changed her destiny forever, and that of her family as well. It involved a lot of time, tears, soul searching and people.
However, sometimes God’s process is on a much shorter cycle, after all He is in eternity, where he is not bound by time.
There have been many accounts given, when someone’s process was said to be instantly. We don’t know whether our process is like Henry Ford’s which took over 19 years to produce the desired results.
Like the one used for Ruth, which happened over a 12 year period of events. Or if it will be instantly done, as was the case with some others.
However it happens, whenever it happens, the purpose for the process is to get us to our desired destination 5 times faster. So we need to remember this when we want to complain about the process, and realize were it not for the process things would take a lot, lot, longer to come to fruition.
This is a hard Thompson Truth.
