Chapter 70—Faithfulness in Service
Those who are unfaithful in the least of temporal affairs will be
unfaithful in responsibilities of greater importance. They will rob
God, and fail of meeting the claims of the divine law. They will not
realize that their talents belong to God and should be devoted to His
service. Those who do nothing for their employers except that which
is commanded them, when they know that the prosperity of the work
depends on some extra exertion on their part, will fail to be accounted
faithful servants. There are many things not specified that wait to be
done, that come directly under the notice of the one employed.
Leaks and losses occur that might be prevented if painstaking
diligence and unselfish effort were manifested, if the principles of love
enjoined upon us by Jesus were carried out in the life of those who
profess His name. But many are working in the cause of God who are
registered as “eye-servants.”
Unfaithfulness Recorded
It is the most abhorrent form of selfishness that leads the worker to
neglect the improvement of time, the care of property, because he is
not directly under the eye of the master. But do such workers imagine
that their neglects are not noticed, their unfaithfulness not recorded?
Could their eyes be opened, they would see that a Watcher looks on,
and all their carelessness is recorded in the books of heaven.
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Those who are unfaithful to the work of God are lacking in prin-
ciple; their motives are not of a character to lead them to choose the
right under all circumstances. The servants of God are to feel at all
times that they are under the eye of their employer. He who watched
the sacrilegious feast of Belshazzar is present in all our institutions, in
the counting-room of the merchant, in the private workshop; and the
bloodless hand is as surely recording your neglect as it recorded the
awful judgment of the blasphemous king. Belshazzar’s condemnation
was written in words of fire, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art
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