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Colossians 4:1
1 Masters, [kurios] give [parecho] unto your servants [doulos] that which is just [dikaios] and [kai] equal; [isotes] knowing [eido] that [hoti] ye [humeis] also [kai] have [echo] a Master [kurios] in [en] heaven. [ouranos] KJV-Interlinear
1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven. NASB
To whom God gives much, God expects much. There is not a single person born on this planet, that is superior or inferior (in Gods eyes) to any other person.
And though there are many who have greater intellectual capabilities, greater physical talents, greater gifted abilities, greater wealth, greater insight and so forth, none of these attributes were provided exclusively for that persons sole and exclusive use and advancement.
God foresaw every possible need in the economics of human history, even when greed and self righteousness and abuses have tendencies to lead people toward elite attitudes regarding themselves over others.
Remember one important principle of life. Humanity is dust and nothing more. God took a pile of dust and fashioned beautiful and ugly, rich and poor, smart and dumb, talented and untalented, and put them all together throughout history to prove mans failure, and Gods ability to make every possible combination of human circumstance into a successful life for anyone who pursues His will.
For the wealthy, the rich, the upper classes, the middle classes, for the CEO’s, the employers, the supervisors, the bosses and so forth, remember too, that God is your sovereign. His policy is to become your policy, within the range which He authorizes you to exercise your God given authority. Anything else is a violation of His will.
So, how many rich masters do you know, that use Biblical principles to guide their business practices?
Most probably those who are not in the limelight, and go virtually unheard of, are the only ones who have any sense of their responsibility to God, and obligation to humanity.
And by obligation, I am speaking of pursuing good business practices. Using their talents in business to create jobs, create commerce, and so forth. This has nothing to do with social welfare philosophies. Folks need to work for their living and self esteem, not become intentional burdens on society.
And if you recall our study in Job, regarding reservoirs, God has placed vast reservoirs of resources for the support of humanity. These reservoirs include wealthy people, investors, innovators, those who would take the risks in business for a profit, while simultaneously creating jobs for everyone else.
And by the way, just a quick note here, only businesses that create new services, new products, new resources for used products, and so forth, are capable of generating economic growth. Organizations (government) that create busy work jobs, add nothing to the economy, because they do not generate business, do not generate new income, but instead remove money from the system through taxation, and that takes away from a growing and expanding economy, placing a burden on society, and burdens hinder growth.
It takes new products and services that people want, to make an economy grow and thrive.
And masters who promote such things, are honoring to the Lord through their pursuit of the divine establishment of free enterprise, and those people who pursue Gods will within their spiritual lives, honor God even more so.
