10A Worship - Worthless Sons

How often have we visited a place of business and sensed an employee cares nothing for the business, or the customers? They appear lazy and devious. You wouldn’t hire them to mow your lawn! Are businesses that desperate?

One of my favorite comedians, Brian Regan, tells the story of being hired by a business to assemble bicycles. The employee training him took him into a back room, slipped through a small hole in the wall, and stood there in that cramped space. He then said, “isn’t this great, they’ll never find us.” And Brian thought, “I’d rather be building bikes.”

Why is there a temptation to take what isn’t ours, to do less than our best at work, to get away with as much as we can?

It happens in the Church too.  We have all been called to serve the Lord, serve others … sometimes we are actually serving ourselves. When this happens there is great danger for us, and for the church.

Thankfully, many we encounter work hard and help make their business or church better. How do we approach our work? Our work in the church?  God knows, even if we fool others, and ourselves.