Lord, Master, Boss

You know…we use these words so often (Lord, Master) about Jesus that they’ve lost their meaning.  Let me tell you what I found as I looked up these words in the Greek.  They are words used for a superintendent or overseer.  Someone who has command over others.  Someone who can say, “Come!” and that person to whom they’re speaking is obligated to “come.”   The Lord or Master has authority over others.  

To understand it a little better, an equivalent modern word we might use is “boss.”  That might change our perspective a little bit.  If our boss tells us to do a certain job and we refuse to do it, we would be considered insubordinate.  We might be fired.  

We’ve been told we’re going to heaven when “we ask Jesus to come into our hearts.”  But what Jesus taught us is that we are to make him Lord.  Boss.  We now serve and obey him.  He does come into our hearts when we recognize we’re sinners, repent, and turn to Jesus.  But it doesn’t stop there.  We’re now ambassadors of Jesus.  He’s the King.  We don’t get to make decisions on our own or do whatever we want to do—and we’re certainly not to live in sin.  In fact, if we’re not bothered (convicted) by our sin, we probably don’t belong to him.  He corrects those he loves.  We now obey our Boss. We are to submit to him.  We represent HIM.  We do whatever he tells us to do—we’re to obey his commands.  

Don’t stop at salvation. We’re compelled to follow Jesus closely; be his disciples.  We’re to look like him and do what he does.  We must obey.  He’s the Boss.