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当罪恶驱使,引诱我们以追求金钱为目的时,工作常会成为我们塞满钱包的一个手段。
罪引致
工作不公
Because Of Sin,
Work Is Unjust
经  文
Reading
“工人给你们收割庄稼,你们亏欠他们的工钱;这工钱有声音呼叫。” - 创 32:30
"Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you." — James 5:4
再  思
Devotion
对在工作上作领导的人来说,雅各书的信息发人深省。表面上看来,他似乎在说,经济富裕是不对的;然而,财富本身并无好坏,最重要的是我们用什么方法赚取使用财富。
James has a sobering message for people who hold positions of leadership in the workplace. On the surface, it might seem as if he is saying that financial success is wrong. But wealth is neither good nor evil; it's how we gain and use our wealth that counts.
当罪恶驱使,引诱我们以追求金钱为目的时,工作常会成为我们塞满钱包的一个手段。我们利用他人来使自己发财,也视他人为影响我们致富的障碍。我们可能压低雇员的工资来增加自己的利润;为了节省开支,我们或许会降低产品质量或安全标准。公司裁员时,底层员工被解雇,但高层员工离职时却可以领取优厚的报酬,世上的确有太多的不公。
When sin tempts us to make the bottom line our top desire, work becomes only a means to padding our pocketbook. People become either objects for us to use, or obstacles in the way of growing our fortune. Perhaps we underpay our employees to keep more for ourselves. Maybe we deliver a sub-quality product or compromise safety standards to keep more money for ourselves. Some of us may know the inequality of working for a company in which low-level employees are downsized out of work while top-level executives leave the company with a golden parachute.
假如你在工作上是一名领导,神的话语劝诫我们,要评估我们的领导责任和公司的管理架构。我们对待员工是否公平?是否拿他们当成工作的机器?而如果你只是一名雇员,假如在工作上遇到不公的情况,请记得要祷告;你的呼求必会上达天庭,时候到了,神一定会出手相助。
If you are in a position of leadership at work, know that God's Word urges us to assess our priorities and structures in the workplace. Are we treating employees fairly? Do we treat those who work for us as people and not merely as cogs in a machine? If you experience injustice in the workplace, be assured that your cries reach the ears of God, and one day God will make things right.
祷  告
Prayer
仁慈的神,祢垂听那些受到不公待遇之人的呼求,我们感谢祢。求帮助我们,以祢的公义和怜悯去对待在我们手下工作的人;若我们受到不公的待遇,也帮助我们忍耐,等待祢的主权得蒙彰显。奉耶稣的名祷告,阿们。
Merciful God, we thank you for hearing the cries of all who are treated unfairly. Help us reflect your justice and mercy in the way we treat people who work for us, and help us endure unfair treatment till you make all things right. Amen.
诵读:楚云   片头: 张妙阳
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