That is, he is required
to be a good carpenter, to do the very best work he can possibly do.
If, therefore, he does careless work, imperfect, dishonest, slurred,
slighted work, he is robbing God, leaving only bad carpentering where
he ought to have left good. For even God himself will not build the
carpenter's houses without the carpenter. Or, here is a mother in a
home. Her children are about her, with their needs. Her home requires
her skill, her taste, her refinement, her toil and care. It is her
calling to be a good mother, and to make a true home for her household.
Her duty is to do always her very best to make her home beautiful,
bright, happy, a fit place for her children to grow up in.
Faithfulness requires that she do always such service as a mother, that
Jesus shall say of her home-making, "She hath done what she could." To
do less than her best is to fail in fidelity. Suppose that her hand
should slack, that she should grow negligent, would she not clearly be
robbing God? For even God cannot make a beautiful home for her
children without her.
So we may apply the principle to all kinds of work. The faithfulness
which God requires must reach to everything we do, to the way the child
gets its lessons and recites them, to the way the dressmaker and the
tailor sew their seams, to the way the blacksmith welds the iron, and
shoes the horse, to the way the plumber puts the pipes into the new
building and looks after the drainage, to the way the carpenter does
his work on the house, to the way the bridge-builder swings the bridge
over the stream, to the way the clerk represents the goods, and
measures or weighs them.
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