What If…

Read Colossians 3:18-4:18

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the
Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an
inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the
Lord Christ you are serving.”
(Colossians 3:23-24)

Thoughts… What if you did everything for one week as if you were doing it for Jesus? What do you think would happen? Do you think your life, and the lives of people who interact with you, would be different? Better? Changed for the good?

I want to suggest a seven-day experiment, starting from the moment you read this blog: For one full week, treat everyone you meet as if you were meeting Jesus. Speak to them, work for them, lead them, serve them, think about them just as if they were Jesus himself. Do it no matter how you feel or how they respond to you, and just see what happens.

If you are married, love your husband like you would if your spouse were Jesus. Serve your wife like you would if Jesus were your bride. Parent your children like Jesus were your child. If you are under someone’s authority—a parent, teacher, a policeman who pulls you over, a supervisor who knows less about the job than you do, or the owner of the company—treat them with the kind of respect you would give Jesus is he were in their place. If you are in authority, lead like Jesus would.

And do your work like you were working for the man, because really, Paul says, you are working for “the man.” If it is cooking breakfast and cleaning house, or doing homework and working on some project, or if it is keeping the books and ringing up a customer, do it as if you were doing it for Jesus himself.

Try it—because in fact, it is the Lord Christ you are serving.

What if you did that? What if…?

Prayer… Jesus, in everything I do this week, I will give it my best shot to love more freely, encourage more fully, serve more diligently, and work more excellently. I will do it for you, because it is you I am serving.

One More Thing… “It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, but why he does it.” —A.W. Tozer.