{"id":50,"date":"2005-11-05T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-11-25T19:49:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:49:55","slug":"faithful-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/faithful-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"

“With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men”<\/font><\/i><\/b> (Ephesians 6:7).<\/p>\n

That was originally directed to servants. Slaves, back then.<\/p>\n

This morning it was directed to me, even though I’m self-employed. So I have no boss, foreman, or manager.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I’m still a servant to my customers.<\/p>\n

If you are one of my customers, know that I have tried to serve you faithfully. We package carefully. We double-check orders. I try to be easy to deal with on returns, refunds, order changes, cancelations, and so forth.<\/p>\n

But . . . .<\/p>\n

I have scores (hundreds, actually) of customer emails that have gone unanswered. I have tried to stay on top. I have tried to catch up. But not hard enough and not faithfully enough.<\/p>\n

After reading Ephesians 6:5-8 this morning, I asked myself, “If the Lord were my customer and had sent me an email inquiry, how prompt and faithful would I have been in getting a reply back to him?”<\/p>\n

I like to think that I would have moved right away to get a helpful reply on its way back to Him.<\/p>\n

But if my service to others is actually service to Him . . . .<\/p>\n

Oh my!<\/p>\n

If you are one of those still waiting for an answer from me, I’m sorry about the delay. I will try harder to get back to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men” (Ephesians 6:7). That was originally directed to servants. Slaves, back then. This morning it was directed to me, even though I’m self-employed. So I have no boss, foreman, or manager. Nevertheless, I’m still a servant to my customers. If you are one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ephesians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}