Exemplifying Christ as Employers and Employees
Sunday Morning Meditation, (Ephesians 6:5-9), 5.4.2025
Good morning everyone!
In Scripture, we often see that our horizontal interactions are largely impacted and influenced by our vertical devotion. In other words, the way we treat God changes the way we treat others, and the way we treat others is a reflection of the way we love God. In our verses for today, Paul addresses another sphere of human interaction– the relationship between servants and masters, employees and employers. He calls employees or “servants” (in our current cultural context, servants are essentially employees) to work with diligence and integrity because they are first accountable to God. He then calls masters, or employers, to treat those under their authority with gentleness, kindness, and respect, knowing that God is not partial with any. All in all, we are being guided on how to love God and love others in different spheres and situations in life.
Today, as it is Sunday, we have a special opportunity to show God’s love to those we see at church. My prayer is that the way we treat others this morning will reflect the way we have been treated by Christ— with selfless and sacrificial love. May we have sweet fellowship in church this Lord’s day and may our hearts be filled with fervent and sincere worship. Have a sweet time in church this morning!
Ephesians 6:5-9
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.