TUESDAY August 24, 2021
Our Master in Heaven
And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
Ephesians 6:9
Within the Ephesian church, Paul dealt with this issue of employers and employees tremendously. He exhorted masters who had the oversight of slaves that they should treat them lovingly, kindly and fairly. God sees everything and there is no difference in their positions––slave or master.
As either employers or employees, we know that we are going to have to work for the rest of our lives, until we retire or go home to be with the Lord. I began work from a very young age: cutting lawns, newspaper routes, washing cars, and working as a clerk or box boy in the grocery stores. I loved to go to work. Yet it seems today that there is much slothfulness––laziness.
Men and women, young and old do not want to work hard and give their best for their employer; they just do enough to get by. The Bible has much to say about the consequences of a lazy person and the rewards of the diligent. Consider these Scriptures and examine your own life:
The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labor (Proverbs 12:24).
The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich (Proverbs 13:4).
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger (Proverbs 19:15).
A lazy man buries his hand in the bowl, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again (Proverbs 19:24).
Children grow into teenagers and they go out into the task force. Parents need to teach them to be diligent. It is important for them to learn that whatever position they hold, whether an employee or employer that they are to be hardworking, serving others as serving the Lord.
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men...
~Colossians 3:23~
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