Isn't it enough that I just do my job and do it well? I want my pay check and my boss wants a job done. That should be enough! I mean I can understand the "not to steal" part and even the "not to talk back" part, but having to prove you can be trusted or even worse, "try to please them." I doubt very seriously that my boss has hired me to be their friend or even to have someone to please them, but lets start with the easy ones first.
"Not to talk back." Funny thing I've noticed about being disrespectful; it never brings you any respect. So, If you talk back; you lose your job (or in the case of a true slave; lose respect and be disrespected). I get that!
"Not to steal." Seems easy to understand and most of us wouldn't dream of stealing from our bosses. However, that word "steal" is really the word nosphizo "purloin, embezzle, withdraw covertly." That is what we think of when we say "stealing" and we would never do that (I hope you wouldn't). But this word also means something as simple as "to set apart, seperate, divide." That doesn't sound quite as bad. And it probably could be applied to all of us in regard to all that little stuff from the office that makes its way to our pockets and gets emptied on the top of the dresser at home. No we aren't being covert, but it doesn't belong to us. If your boss knew; he wouldn't be pleased. That is the point. To show that we can be fully trusted. Why? To Adorn the Gospel. If we can't be fully trusted; then why would anyone trust what we say about the Gospel.
But this all seems like something we all should do, so the question that pops into my head is why does he direct this instruction to slaves only?
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