“You serve the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:24)

Every saint, needs to remember, ultimately, they serve Christ.

I know a saint who quit high school because he foolishly believed that Christ was returning to Earth soon, so why did he need a High School diploma? While he waited for the second coming, he had to work, so he looked in the classified ads for “dishwasher wanted”. And why not? He knew he would have opportunities to share Christ in a restaurant, and since Christ was coming soon, he wanted to share the good news of the Gospel with as many people as he could.

The story had a happy ending. God blessed him with a much better job through a miracle, but the lesson today isn’t that God will always give you a better job if you humble yourself and work for Him. When someone gets saved, they should be willing to do whatever God asks. A Christian dishwasher who tells others about Christ is better off than a highly successful jet-setter who dies a sinner.

“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels” (Mark 8:36-38).

Unless you’re willing to give up everything for God, you’re not free. If you’re not willing to witness to people at your work, you need to question your salvation.

Christ warned, “whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:27-28).