Living in Real Life

I just reads a news story about conflict at work. A woman was arrested for putting a sedative into her bosses coffee because she felt "he needed to chill out" a little. Maybe he did...Maybe you do... Ephesians 5 and 6 confronts three places in which who we are as new in Christ Jesus, is lived out in real life. You can be whoever you want to be on Sunday mornings, but who you real are is best known by your spouse, your parents or your children, and those you work with 40 or more each week.

In each of these sets of relationships: wife/husband, child/parent, worker/boss; the naturally tendency towards "me first" sets us up for conflict. On the other hand, submitting ourselves to one another in reverence to Christ (Ephesians 5:21) will turn any of these relationships upside down. God says to submit or set aside my own agenda and instead devote myself to my wife, my kids, those who work with me, for their good. When I do, I am living the mind of Christ before them and for them. This may not eliminate conflict, but it could change the direction of it...

As far as the woman and the coffee--maybe she should have just tried decaf...