You
Serve
The Lord Christ
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in
everything, not only while being watched and in order to please them, but
wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. Whatever your task, put yourselves into it,
as done for the Lord and not for your masters, since you know that from the
Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord
Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong has been done,
and there is no partiality.
Most Christians are not engaged in
professional ministry. They don’t preach or sing or work for an evangelistic
agency. Their time between Sundays is spent doing jobs that don’t seem to have
value for the spread of the gospel. That is not the case. We all have roles. We
all have talents. God can and will use us all, if only we let Him. We have to
accept Jesus as our Savior and when that happens God, through Jesus, provides
the Spirit in us to guide and direct us.
God’s purposes in this world will be
fulfilled. In order for that to happen there is a structured society with all
the activities that go with it. The people we work with and for are all
servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whether they know it or not, employers and
employees all carry out God’s good purposes. As long as the assigned task is
not sinful or unethical, you can be doing God’s work, where you work.
View your daily work – whatever it is
– as an extension of God’s work in the world. As we do so, we will find there
is no better place to spread the good news of salvation than right where God
has placed us.
For the
Christian, work is ministry.