Don't let position get to your head.
| posted 1/30/2009
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It's one thing to go to church with fellow Christians; it can be something else entirely to have to work with them. Sunday-morning politeness quickly evaporates into Monday-morning business.
If you're in a supervisory position, God has given you a sphere of authority over certain people for the good of that workplace and everyone in it. But a person's relative position at work has nothing to do with his or her position in Christ. The person you stand next to in choir may be far below you on the business ladder, but he may chair a church committee where you're the newest and most naive member. God seems to enjoy mixing up place and position like that!
Christians who work together should still think of each other as brothers and sisters in Christ not just on Sunday, but during the rest of the week as well. We're all equals before him and each other. A supervisory role gives no license to lord it over other Christians—or anyone else for that matter—at work. (See also Exodus 18; 1 Kings 3:5-15; 4:29-34; Ezra 5:1-6:12; Jeremiah 32:26-44; John 21:15-25; 2 Timothy 1:1-7; Philemon 8-16.)
Good Words to Remember:
[Receive Onesimus] no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. Philemon 16
Today's Challenge:
Has being in a supervisory position changed you in any ways? If so, what ones? And are they good or bad changes?
Copyright 2001 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian Bible Studies.
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