Shopping Cart Theory
Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey your masters in everything. Obey all the time, even when they can’t see you. Don’t just pretend to work hard so that they will treat you well. No, you must serve your masters honestly because you respect the Lord.
I think most of us have many times had to decide – Will I return the shopping cart to the place marked out for that purpose in the carpark or will I just leave it, like so many others, beside my car and simply drive off?
Call me crazy, but it seems to me that the shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of doing the right thing. For most of us, returning it is a quick, easy task and one that we all recognise as being the right thing to do.
Although … it’s not illegal to contribute to the trail of shopping carts strewn randomly across the carpark. No one will fine you, punish you, kill you for leaving it there. And yet …
So at that decision point – do I leave it, or do I take it back? – that humble shopping cart tells us a lot about ourselves. Will I do what’s right without being forced to? Will I make things easier for the staff who work there and safer and more convenient for my fellow shoppers, purely out of the goodness of my heart … or not?
Surely it doesn’t matter. Surely no one will notice.
Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey your masters in everything. Obey all the time, even when they can’t see you. Don’t just pretend to work hard so that they will treat you well. No, you must serve your masters honestly because you respect the Lord.
Each and every day you and I have the opportunity to do what’s right, to do what’s good, in countless little ways that will, by and large, go unnoticed. The question is … will we take those opportunities?
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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