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Below are a Few Signs of Being Used!!!
(1.)
Creating inferior products because of greed.
(Things that wear out quickly so they must be
replaced sooner so the manufacture will profit
more.)
(2.)
Representing our products falsely by
exaggerated marketing ads just to make sales.
(3.)
Treating our employees the way we would
want to be treated.
(Fair and just wages and benefits should be given
to all workers without being a respecter of
persons.)
(4.)
Furnishing comfortable and good working conditions for
our help.
(5.)
Observing the Sabbath rest for all employees as well
as ourselves.
(Workaholics will eventually
experience burnout and God knew as
human beings we all need a day of rest and refreshing
in the Lord.)
(6.)
Terminating employees unfairly because of
greed.
(Often loyal older employees are replaced
by younger
ones at a lesser salary to avoid retirement benefits
and the higher earned salary of the older worker).
(7.)
Correcting our workers when necessary with kindness
and grace.
Although
these lists are by no means complete, this will give
us a
starting place to examine if we are living a Christian
life in the
marketplace. Notice the examples
used in this list are character related
and unless people come to God and allow Jesus to change
their evil
nature, our nation will continue to plunge into a deteriorating
workplace.
We as Christians should be examples in leading the way
of good work
ethics in the marketplace. It is sad that many Christians
fail to do this
and our witness in the world is not Christian at all
as we act like the rest
of the world.
Many
Christian employees justify their actions because they
feel they
are just compromising in little things that do not matter.
Such things as:
Telling little white lies, tardiness, misusing their
privileges, failure to
keep their word, gossiping in the office, taking advantage
of their sick
leave, using the company telephone, postage, equipment,
etc. for
personal use, expecting salaries beyond their work production,
producing sloppy work, etc.
Christian
employers who violate God's principles are guilty too,
of
wrong treatment of employees, improper conduct, unfair
wages,
overworking employees, failure to supply safe working
conditions,
ignoring communication problems and unjustly terminating
employees.
The
Word of God tells us how we can please God in the workplace
in
Matthew 25:23, "His lord said unto him, Well done,
good and faithful
servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things,
I will make thee ruler
over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
Being faithful in
the little things will promote us to rule over larger
things. The same is
true on the negative side, neglect in little things
can cause big problems.
May the Lord show us the "little foxes" in
our workplaces that are
creating big problems.
We
must remember as Christians our ministry is to live
the Christian
life any where we are. The most important thing is our
relationship with
people. We must guard and watch our attitude in the
office one toward
another as well as our outreach to the people God sends
us to be a
witness. Remember the Golden Rule:
"Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31)
We
need to strive for excellent work and be like our Lord.
Scriptures
that pertain to the workplace that we all need to keep
in mind are as
follows:
Isaiah
12:5 "Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent
things: this is
known in all the earth."
Colossians
3:17 "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do
all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the
Father by him."
Colossians
3:23 "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as
to the Lord,
and not unto men."
Ecclesiastes
9:10 "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy
might."
Luke
16:10 "He that is faithful in that which is least
is faithful also in
much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also
in much."
Proverbs
11:1 "A false balance is abomination to the LORD:
but a just
weight is his delight."
1
John 2:5-6 "But whoso keepeth his word, in him
verily is the love of
God perfected: hereby we know that we are in him. He
that saith he
abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as
he walked."
Ephesians
6:5-9 "Servants, be obedient to them that are your
masters
according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in
singleness of your
heart, as unto Christ; Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers;
but as the
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
With good will
doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing
that whatsoever
good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive
of the Lord,
whether he be bond or free. And ye masters, do the same
things unto
them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master
also is in
heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him."
Romans
12:10-11 "Be kindly affectioned one to another
with brotherly
love; in honour preferring one another; Not
slothful in business; fervent
in spirit; serving the Lord."
WHAT
DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT....BUSINESS?
Song
of Solomon 2:15 says,
"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil
the vines:
for our vines have tender grapes.
" Foxes sometime in search of food would enter
into the grape
orchards and devour the grapes and spoil the crop.
However, the little foxes were too small to reach the
grape
bunches so they would chew on the vines and it would
kill
the whole vine. Instead of the farmer just losing his
crop,
he would lose his vine which was more disastrous.
Spiritually some things we do or allow that we might
think
is little or insignificant can also be disastrous for
us.
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