SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/27/2017 9:40 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 A Word
to Servants
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Colossians 3:22-25
Message of the verses: “22 Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.”
I want to continue to get some help from Dr. Warren
Wiersbe’s commentary for today’s Spiritual Diary.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “A Christian servant owed complete
obedience to his master as a ministry to the Lord. If a Christian servant had a believing
master, that servant was not to take advantage of his master because they were
brothers in the Lord. If anything, the
servant strived to do a better job because he was a Christian. He showed singleness of heart and gave his
full devotion to his master. His work
was done heartily, not grudgingly, and as to the Lord and not to men. ‘He serves the Lord Christ.’”
In the society that we live in we do not have slaves so
then who would Paul be talking about in this section for our society
today? I believe that he would be
talking about those who work for employers and so the same thing applies to
them today as slaves did during Paul’s day.
When I was a supervisor in a very large foundry I had
people who worked for me who were believers and one of the problems we faced
was that they had a very strong union, so I have to say that from time to time
I did have trouble with some of those who were believers who worked for
me. I let them know about it from time
to time too.
Even thought we
are not talking about the other things we discussed in recent SD’s about
Parents, husbands, and wives I want to include a quote from Dr. Wiersbe as he
reviews these things. “As we review this
very practical section of Colossians, we see once again the preeminence of
Jesus Christ in our lives as believers.
Christ must be the Head of the home.
This series of admonitions is actually a practical application of
Colossians 3:17: ‘And whatsoever ye do
in word of deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.’ It is by His power and authority that we
should live in our daily relationships.
If He is the preeminent One in our lives, then we will love each other,
submit to each other, obey, and treat one another fairly in the Lord.”
5/27/2017 9:59 PM
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