[Gary Petty] Listen to this notice that appeared on a company bulletin board: “Due to increased competition and a keen desire to stay in business, we find it necessary to institute a new policy. We are asking that somewhere between starting time and quitting time, and without infringing on the time devoted to lunch, coffee breaks, rest periods, storytelling, ticket selling, vacation planning, and rehashing of gossip, each employee endeavors to find some time that can be set aside and known as the work break.” Now, there’s something that’s humorous about this, but something is very true, too.

You know, when we go to work for someone, and we go in as an employee, we have a moral responsibility according to Scripture, to give that employer a full day’s work – to give them our time for the money that they’re giving us. To work as a Christian, as an example as a Christian to our employer. But how many times do we go to work and maybe talk a lot, spend time on our phones, spend time doing personal things? Actually, we can find ourselves talking yourself out of a job, where we finally don’t do enough work we get fired. And we say it’s the employer’s fault. Well, listen to this proverb that comes from the book of Proverbs. Solomon wrote, “In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter only leads to poverty.”

Think about it. Are you giving, as a Christian, your employer a full day’s work? Working as if you are working for God? Or is there a lot of idle chatter? According to the Scripture, it leads to poverty.

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