Devotion 9 - Who's The Boss?

Colossians 3: 23-24, "Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord-you serve the Lord Christ."

SERVE -to obey, submit to, a) in a good sense, to yield obedience.

Both of my Grandfathers had farms and hired temporary workers when the seasons demanded it. During the summers as a teenager I worked for each of them when they needed help. As we worked together they tried to teach me what was expected of a man by being men and working alongside of me and just generally being there as an example. I learned a bit and there have been many times I've wished I could go back for a "refresher" course.
I've never worked harder because I loved my "bosses". It's not that they paid particularly well, or that the work day was short, or the lunches were exceptionally good (OK, they were - both my Grandmothers were great cooks), it's because I loved them and wanted to please them. if the truth were known I would probably have worked for free. My absolute best teenage memories are those long days in the sun working for two of the men I most respected and seeing their pride in what I was slowly becoming. Deep down I had already "submitted" to these men a long time ago. That submission, or obedience, had been cemented in me as a very small child - along with love for these men. And I would serve them with my last ounce of strength in anything they asked.
Each day as we leave our homes to go off and earn our living maybe we need a little "attitude adjustment". What if everything we did on this earth was consciously done for the Lord we love? What if every meeting, every sale, every performance report, every house we build, every car we make, every interaction we have with friends or family, everything, was done for the Lord? I know that if I did this almost everything I did would be better. I also know that if I focused my work on the Lord and not on man and did my best I would take a lot of pressure off myself. You see, if you're not trying to please man you won't worry about what man thinks of how you're doing. If you're trying to please the Lord, well He already loves you and that won't change