इफिसियों 6:6

"Not with eye service as men-pleasers" — working only when being watched, and trying to gain special favor by deceit. The ultimate object of their honest hard work is to please the Lord, not men. For God is watching always and we should always practice obedience from the heart. If Christ is the Object of our service, then it will never become irksome.

Here again the obligation is taken out of the range of the old creation, and connected with Christ in glory. Like wives and children, the servants are exhorted to render their obedience "as unto Christ." This at once transfers their duties to a higher region than either the legal compulsion of the old system, or the legal contract of the present. Even a slave's duties were at once ennobled and sweetened if he could say, "I am doing this, not for reward, or to escape punishment, but to please Christ." It was not to be a question of whether the task imposed was reasonable or unreasonable, light or arduous. Wrong endured, or severe labour performed for Christ's sake, might be cheerfully borne.

Is it not worthy of all note the extent and depth of the liberty that is in Christ? There is nothing violent or revolutionary; and yet the change is complete, absolute, final in its principle and character... what a boon to the christian bondman! What a mighty motive for him, who, already consciously free in Christ in a liberty entirely superior to circumstances...

The grace of God, which brings salvation to men of all orders and degrees, prescribes no necessary change of station, but teaches how we may adorn them all... It is of Christ that men are forced to think, when they see His people blamelessly and cheerfully discharging, for His sake, the more difficult and wearisome duties of life. What men are incited to do well by motives of self-interest, should be done better, because more sincerely, by a Christian for the love of Christ.

How beautifully our Lord Himself furnishes the example of this. He "took upon Him the form of a servant." Though entitled to be free, He submits to tribute lest He should offend them. So the believing servant, under the cruelest and most tyrannical treatment, was to show out the life of Christ in him. "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully … for even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps." (1 Peter 2:19‑21.)

Certainly the same principle applies to employees in any business. They are to show honest concern to faithfully discharge every duty of their business relationships in sincerity of heart, as to Christ.

This is an individual matter and it is a great comfort to us, if we are seeking to please the Lord alone, to know that His eye is upon us; we are not seeking the approval even of our fellow Christians, much less of the world, but of the Lord alone.