How to be a better Christian employer/employee

 

 

Ephesians6:5-9 (KJV)

 

5) Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

 

6) Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

 

7) With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

 

8) Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

 

9) And ye master, do the same thing unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. {forbearing; or, moderating }

 

     Let me start by saying that we all are not perfect, and everything we do will not be perfect. But through the Love of Jesus Christ we can do better.

     At work is the hardest time for any of us to show our best side. It is easy to say on Saturday or Sunday, which ever is the day you worship God, we say we are ready to show our best we can be at work. If you work at a good Christian place, you are blessed. Most of us work with all kind of different kind of people. So it is hard to know what that day will hold for us. Paul write to us in Ephesians a guideline for all of us to follow. Is it an easy one to follow? It all depends on the people you work around. I know it is not easy to do, it is impossible. Only through Jesus can we even come close to doing a good job at it.

     As you read the verses and think it is only talking about the slaves and their masters, you are wrong. It is about us today, how we are suppose to act and do our work. How many of us fall short on God's scale for being an employee or employer. It is easy to compare your self to someone else you work with, and say I am better then him, but how about on God's standers, how do you thing you rate?

     As an employee do you for short cuts, easy way out of doing thing, doing the minimum that you can? Are you always looking for the boss, so you can work harder, so he can see it and are you only being a manpleasers to your boss, or are you trying to please God in your work? If we can please God with our work then we are doing the best we can, and that will make any Christian boss happy. A Christian employee won't cheat, curse, lie to his boss, won't hold grudges. Now am I saying you won't get mad, or curse, but you won't feel good about doing it and you should be known for it. We ask Jesus to for give us for doing it so we can be forgiven. Will this get you further up in the business you are now working in? Maybe or maybe not, but it will please God. To please God is always better then pleasing any man.

     Now if you are lucky enough to be in charge of other people you are not to think you are better then the people under you. For you will have to answer to God also. As a boss/supervisor you are not to threaten, favor one over the another, but to hold everyone to the same rules as others in that position.

     No matter what you do, employee or employer, or owner, you will be answering to God for what you did, or didn't do, how you treated them. We all will be looking up to God to answer to Him. Keep that in mind next time you think you are better then the other person.

 

Thank you for your time.

God Bless

Rev. Dale Merchant