A Snail's Pace

Are you the kind of person who believes you’re doing your work well as long as others see you in some kind of busy mode? However, you do it so very slowly with the intent to stretch out your working hours? You don’t want to do more than what is absolutely necessary, and consider if do this one aspect of your job responsibility so well no one will notice or care about the rest. After all, you’ve chosen the most essential part of what is required of you – and you do it with excellence. You believe this will satisfy others and they will overlook your abuse of work hours – and your abuse of them. Should they? You are deliberately trying to deceive others feigning productivity while the reality is you are inactive with your time. Should they condone your behavior when in actuality you are deceitful, and have proven you can’t be counted on. Someone has to do the work, and take on what you are refusing to do.

You are idle and slothful. Who are you deceiving, others or yourself? Why? Why are you so deceitful, dishonest and shamming your way through so many hours of the day? Have you considered your reality – you are fraudulent – you’re deliberately misleading and cheating your co-workers and your employers. When you fail to do the work you are paid to do – you are stealing. You are taking money which you have not earned.

Irrespective of your reasons for your behavior you need to repent. Repent, and change. Stop it now! For enduring change consider the reasons you are behaving in this way. Is your idleness a deliberate fraudulent act, or are there other reasons for your inability to perform your complete job responsibilities? Whichever it is; deliberate or the result of depression, and / or the inability to resolve the struggles you have – you need to change. If your idle behaviors are the result of heart struggles, please find someone to speak to, someone who will counsel you from the Word of God. Should you not attend to the heart reasons for your behavior your idleness will besmirch your testimony. It will harm your witness.

• Teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more (Job 34:32).

• That is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need (Ephesians 4:20-28).

• Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity (Proverbs 28:13-14).

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