We got a demotion !

You are a very successful man and you own many companies. You need to hire a CEO for a new company that you’ve set up and having gone through the hiring process, there's this great looking guy that you’ve got. 

You introduce the now new boss to his staff in a welcome party that you’ve hosted with champagne and all, and he starts his first day at work. 

His package is a good one and comes with a personal secretary and a company car even though you have not disclosed of which type it is. You’ve been talking and pushing through for the custom made plum executive car to get delivered in time for his first day at work but there has been a delay and the best you can do is on his second day. 

You’re there very early the next day and you settle in your corner office as workers start trickling in an hour later. The delivery company had promised to be here by eight and you plan to surprise your new CEO by revealing his new car once he get's there. 

At around ten past eight you call the receiving office and you are told that the car had already been delivered. Your new CEO had apparently arrived twenty minutes earlier and just happened to be in the packing bay as the guys had pulled in and had signed for it. 

You know your surprise has been ruined but you take it easy as you go to look for him to hear what he thinks of it. As you approach his office, his assistant informs you that he did not come up but had called twenty minutes earlier to say he would and was  at the parking bay and would be up in while.   By now you have a big smile on your face; you’re thinking how good the guy is feeling. You let his assistant know that you need him in your office as soon as he gets there. 

Fifteen minutes later you call his desk and you’re informed that he is not yet up and you decide to call him on his cell, something you’d rarely do and only in dire times.

“Good morning Mike,” you start, trying to sound casual to ease any worries he might have. What you hear from the other end makes you slowly put down your phone and with a long glaring gaze, you sink deep in thought. 

Apparently Mike has been involved in an accident, the car is crap but he is okay.  He doesn’t feel it is okay to come into the office at this time.  'Surely he is wallowing in guilt' you ponder. You get to where he is at and try to get the full story of what actually happened.

At first he doesn’t want to face you but he gives in comes up with this story of how the secretary had informed him it’s okay to go for a test drive saying it was just common practice. True, the secretary had said those words but she believes that once you are given a job you should be given autonomy as per company policy.  

What do you do? I would demote both of them or even sack them, not because I couldn’t have let it go, but because of not owning up. That’s not the way I want my company to be run, any person I appoint CEO of any of my companies has to be good enough to perform but also good enough to own up to any mistakes they make. 

That’s how God dealt with humans. He had appointed them as CEO’s over the whole earth and given them authority over everything. The only thing they were not to touch was one tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Yet that tree was still in the Garden of Eden. That tree’s fruits had to be eaten at some point but they had to wait for God’s consent. 

The demotion ends only when you learn from the new CEO who has come to work above you. You work under him and learn and then God will be able to give you your own ‘company‘to run in the future.  That new CEO is Jesus Christ and believing in his way of doing things will land you to the top job once again.