Dearly Beloved Children Servants Double Your Paycheck

Dearly Beloved Children

Servants Double Your Paycheck

Today’s devotional tells you how

to double your pay check!

Doing the same work

and having a smile.

Jesus clearly taught us to be servants.

Jesus measures greatness by how well we serve.

Servanthood is a key message throughout the Bible.

The character and reward of the servant

are probably laid out more clearly in Ephesians 6:5-9

than any other place in the Bible.

Servants are to respectfully obey.

Always do a better job than what you are asked to do.

Have a good heart attitude.

Communicate your joy to help

by keeping a smile on your face.

The key - is what is behind your motive.

We all have a motive for what we do.

Our motive is clear.

All we do should be done to please the Lord.

Our real master is Christ.

His bank account and benefits cannot be exhausted.

So no matter who you are working for,

God will see to it that you receive

good pay for a good job. 

I, like you, have not always got

a sign of appreciation from my employers.

But the feeling I got,

 knowing God was pleased with my work,

helped me sleep well at night.

It is also nice to know that when

you deposit your Friday paycheck,

you have also deposited one

in your heavenly account.

As dearly beloved children,

we get double time for our labor.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 6:5-9 The Message

5 Servants, respectfully obey your earthly masters

but always with an eye to obeying the real master, Christ.

6 Don't just do what you have to do to get by,

but work heartily,

as Christ's servants doing what God wants you to do.

7 And work with a smile on your face,

always keeping in mind that no matter

who happens to be giving the orders,

you're really serving God.

8 Good work will get you good pay from the Master,

regardless of whether you are slave or free.

9 Masters, it's the same with you.

No abuse, please, and no threats.

You and your servants are both

under the same Master in heaven.

He makes no distinction between you and them.

(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)