Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the 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 that there is no partiality with him.
(Ephesians 6:5-9)
Have you ever worked in a place where you just didn't like your job and your boss wasn't a good boss? You don't like how people are being treated or what people are told? We've all been there. Some of us maybe very outspoken about it try to make change there in our own strength. Others of us show up to work, do what are told to do but only doing it enough to get that pay check because we don't want to get into the mess of what others think of us and really not being ourselves. Being people pleasers. But why do we do these things? Oh wait... because "We know better."
While meditating on Ephesians 6:5-9 this morning, the thought came to me the phares "We know better" reeks of disgusting pride and exposes the state of our hearts. Pride births all other sin. What right do we have to think we know better then God? He created us, gives us grace to breath our next breath. He is very intentional about putting us where we are, in our lives, right now. God put us in that job, put us in that school, put us in that friendship, put us in that family; God put us in to those relationships for a purpose and for His glory.
We can never forget this! I know I do all the time. I fall into this state of I know better than... and forget about why God put me into that place, or relationship. I start doing my own thing. I forget that I need to do everything to the glory of God and be light int the darkness. That is what those who follow Jesus Christ and love Him do! I can't tell you how much this hit me this morning.
We shouldn't hide ourselves, pull back, and do enough just to get by nor should we try to change the place or person all because we know better. God knows better. We need to repent and humble ourselves and trust what God tells us and follow Him.
