p. 11 | Honesty in Service

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

Honesty in Service

The Scripture says, “Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh.” When I am employed, whether by an institution, by a brother, or by a man of the world, that work is not my personal property; it is my employer’s. I am not the owner, I am not the employer; I am the servant; and it is an essential point in being honest, that I take care to do that piece of work exactly as the employer wishes it done. When I know what his mind is as to how the work is to be done, then in all my work I must conform to his will as closely and as honestly as I possibly can.

You are employed by him to do his work, not yours. You engage yourself to do his work for a certain amount of pay. To be honest, then, you must do his work precisely his way. You can not fairly ask him to pay you for doing his work in your way. Since, then, the work is his, you must conform strictly to his will in the doing of it. “Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh.” Be honest.