CHRIST IN THE MARKETPLACE

(These One A Days are added to each new day)

The little boy who shined the shoes of a certain business man did so with such joy and efficiency that finally the businessman had to ask, “How is that you always work so hard, as if every shoe were a monument to perfection.” The reply left the man speech-less, “Mister, I’m a Christian and I try to shine every pair of shoes as if Jesus Christ were wearing them.”

When you sell, or type, or build or shop, or whatever you do out there in the world of commerce, do you treat the object of your actions as if they were Jesus Christ? I didn’t say, “Were they acting like it?” That’s not the point.

The point is that the marketplace is always in danger of suffering from a bad attack of greed whether there is a downturn or upturn in the economy. Spiritual malnutrition and moral blindness come easily when profits are at stake. If you have any doubt just look at the television ads that preach Greed with a capital G.

Nor are customers always without blame, for all too often they are rude and curt toward salespeople.

Christ in the marketplace? Well, for the understatement of the year, it sure would be nice.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mannon. Luke 16:13

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