Daily Butter: Serve who?

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (Labor Day 9/3/12):

 

Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord. (Ephesians 6:78-8 HCSB)

 

I thought it should be clarified that I am not defining “serve” in the sense of the American Labor Day weekend tradition of the 90+ MPH tennis ball off the racket of Andy Roddick in Flushing, New York. But instead it is more about the balance I (and I think we all) must face in our professions. My jobs are that of customer service, in which I must serve each and every customer with whom I have contact while balancing that I serve at the leisure of the company who writes my paycheck and must do everything in light of the affect on the company and in the interest of the administration and shareholders. So not only do I have to balance those interests, but Paul’s words to the Ephesians remind me that my primary profession is that my Lord and Master is Jesus Christ and my service is as His ambassador (2 Corinthians 5:20). Not that I get it right, but I strive as  to serve each and every person I interact with each day (boss, customer, or coworker) with His love so that He may be glorified and “this little light of mine” might shine in the darkness.

 

- Andy Jentes