At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guests are Nick and Giovanni Gallo, they serve as Co-CEO’s of ComplianceLine where they live out their passion for seeing people thrive in the workplace.

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Nick: Yeah, I like first John 5:14. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he will hear us. And you know, I've just been reflecting on the fact that you have not because you asked not and there's probably a lot more that I could be, you know, asking for and relying on. And there's probably a lot more sort of stress that I'm taking on that I don't need to take on or again, that differential between what I can control and what I can't. To the extent that I'm living outside of that bubble, that just creates a lot of stress, negativity and all those kinds of things.

Gio: Yeah. And I think for me, you know, something I've been working through a breakthrough recently is it is part of my personality. It's part of how I'd run my life. And God blessed me in a lot of ways, but, you know, I'm very achievement-oriented. I'm very task-oriented and very goal-oriented. You know, there's a temptation to kind of put a lot of my stock and my hope in those things. 

And, you know, I've been praying through this. You know, I think I've covered a lot of those things that I want to achieve, these things to honor God. And I want to do well in this job and be a good steward of these, because that's you know, that's what I've been entrusted with. So it's not necessarily impure, but, you know, maybe have a tendency to focus a lot on those in my kind of heart goes to those achievements or the outstanding task list and that kind of stuff. And I've been praying through how God can help me kind of see my relationship with him more clearly and more upfront than those things that I see as serving him. 

So, Micah 6:8 would be a verse kind of tied to that where I'm trying to figure out, you know, how should I make this decision? Should I hire this person? Should we invest in this thing or whatever? I get very wrapped up in that task and then Micah 6:8 says, what does the Lord require of you? But to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. And that's what he requires of us. And I want to kind of be more upfront focused on walking with him and less kind of focused on trying to muscle listening to the ground.

Nick: I mean, that's it. That's all that's required. So everything else is on the periphery and optionality and all that other stuff. So, again, it's freeing to understand what's really important. And then all these other things kind of don't matter. Yeah.

Gio: And God's going to provide for those things that are outside of my control or even that I mess up. I mean, there are a lot of heroes in scripture who mess things up. But God is faithful and he's just and he's merciful. And, you know, all of those things are gonna happen, you know, through his sovereign will, even if I make the wrong call on partnering with a vendor or whatever it might be.