Counsel #5 — Work Time Ethics

Picture: Counsel #5 — Work Time EthicsCLi 44.1

Have you ever considered that those minutes and hours at work belong to your employer? Or that honesty, both to your employer and to God, is part of time management?CLi 44.2

A person giving his or her employer an honest day’s work will not routinely leave work undone for the next shift, take unnecessary personal calls, waste work time browsing the internet, or take unauthorized long breaks. God calls for total honesty in all things!^{[40]https://stewardship.adventist.org/article-for-whom-do-you-toil}CLi 44.3

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.” Ecclesiastes 9:10 NKJVCLi 44.4

“All branches of business, all manner of employments, are under the eye of God; and every Christian has been given ability to do something in the cause of the Master. Whether engaged in business in the field, in the warehouse, or in the counting room, men will be held responsible to God for the wise and honest employment of their talents. They are just as accountable to God for their work, as the minister who labors in word and doctrine is for his.” Ellen White in Christian Service, p. 142CLi 44.5

Reflect: Are there areas in your work time where you struggle to be faithful?CLi 44.6