Waverly Church of Christ

By the time a person reaches the age of 50, if that person has worked full-time since college, he or she will have worked approximately 56,000 hours. For those who began working straight out of high school, the time is even more — 64,000 hours — and that is figuring 40 hour weeks and two weeks vacation per year. Regardless of where you work or what you do, this is a lot of time. Long ago, Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 2:17, “So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.” In our text today, Paul addresses the relationship between masters and slaves. This relationship closely mirrors that of employer and employee. The big question we need to ask ourselves tonight is, “For whom do I work?”