You go to work and do as your boss says. Your boss may be someone in the business world, the scholastic world, or even in the retirement world. You have someone that you strive to do your best to perform well, no matter the exact job function.
I say that you try and do your best. Hopefully, that is true of you. As you talk to those in management and levels of authority, that just might not be exactly true. You find many who want to cut corners and put in the least amount of work to keep their job. One unknown author says this, “If half the ingenuity spent in finding excuses for not doing what we ought to do were exercised in finding means to do what ought to be done, there would be a great difference.” That quote may just be where you are in life. At first, you, probably, would not agree, but when a little time is taken and you take an honest look at your life, the quote might be true of you.
Scripture teaches that you are to be a hard worker. You are to be someone that goes beyond the bare minimum amount of work to just get by. “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men” (Colossians 3:23). Those words, “whatever you do,” means exactly what it says. They refer to pleasing a boss at work, a teacher at school, a mate in a marriage, a friend in a relationship, or anything that you do. In all those roles, you are to do them the same way that you would do if you were doing them for the Lord God Himself!
Realizing that whatever you do, that you do for God, is getting the right perspective of who your Boss really is. In all of life you have one and only one Boss. That Boss is none other than God. So, do it all for His honor and glory!
