The Position has been Filled

Editor’s Note: The Position Has Been Filled is a five-part Lent to Easter reflection series that explores the Paschal Mystery through the lens of a professional hiring process.

PART I

The Job Posting From Mankind to Heaven

By Camille Mc Millan Rambharat

Workforce and Leadership Development Adviser

In workforce and leadership development, a job posting is never casual. When an employer releases a position, it signals urgency. Something is missing. Something is broken. The organisation has reached a point where internal effort is no longer sufficient. A vacancy means the problem cannot solve itself.

A responsible employer begins by asking difficult questions. What exactly is needed? What has already been tried? What competencies are essential, not optional? A job description clarifies expectations before any applicant steps forward.

This Lent, as I reflected on salvation history, I began to see it through that familiar lens. What if humanity’s spiritual condition were understood as a vacancy notice? What if the story of redemption began with an honest job posting?

To: The Courts of Heaven

From: Humanity

Subject: Urgent Vacancy Redeemer Required

Since Eden, humanity has lived with separation from God. We carry sin that fractures relationships and distorts desire. We struggle with pride, injustice, fear, and mortality. Across centuries, we have tried reform, sacrifice, kings, prophets, moral codes, and religious discipline. The Law revealed what holiness requires. The prophets called us back to covenant faithfulness. Yet the fracture remained.

A healthy employer does not ignore repeated failure. It clarifies the role more precisely.

We therefore seek a Redeemer. These are the required qualifications

• Perfect holiness
• Freedom from sin
• Authority over death
• Willingness to assume full responsibility for human guilt
• Capacity to restore covenant relationship between God and humanity
• Experience preferred
• Eternal pre-existence
• Demonstrated authority over creation
• Fulfilment of covenant promises across generations
• Minimum requirement Before Abraham was, I AM

Leadership competencies

• Ability to form and sustain a mission-centred community
• Capacity to mentor diverse and imperfect followers
• Servant leadership under pressure
• Commitment to long-term restoration rather than temporary relief

Terms of Employment

• Incarnation required
• Rejection probable
• Suffering certain
• Crucifixion

Additional assets might include familiarity with human labour, carpentry experience, and perhaps even the transformation of water into wine. In professional settings, compensation usually motivates candidates. Here, the cost outweighs the reward. The position demands sacrifice, misunderstanding, and suffering.

Yet the need is undeniable.

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Humanity has never lacked effort. We have lacked redemption. We cannot engineer holiness. We cannot legislate salvation. We cannot defeat death.

Lent invites us to admit what every employer must eventually admit. The solution cannot come from within. And so, the vacancy stands open.

Next week, we will examine how the only qualified applicant responds. When a candidate applies, it reveals not only competence, but willingness.

The question now is simple.

Will anyone answer the call?