Colossians 3:22-25
New International Version
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. 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.
Lesslie Newbigin
Honest Religion for Secular Man (p 136), Philadelphia. Fortress, 1966
We can commit ourselves without reserve to all the secular work our shared humanity requires of us, knowing that nothing we do in and of itself is good enough to form part of that city’s building, knowing that everything — from our most secret prayers to our most public political acts — is part of that sin–stained human nature that must go down into the valley of death and judgment, and yet knowing that as we offered it up to the Father in the name of Christ and in the power of the Spirit, it is safe with Him and — purged in fire — it will find its place in the holy city at the end.
Comment: (One)
Pleasing God
Everything you do should be to please
the Lord not man.