Faithfulness in Small, Smelly Things

I could­n’t help but laugh when I ran across this news arti­cle. I quote:

Count­ing toi­let roll sheets proved a suc­cess for a vig­i­lant British work­er who won his employ­er thou­sands of pounds in com­pen­sa­tion after he dis­cov­ered that some rolls were not as long as they should be.

Turns out the rolls were less than 2/3 the size they were adver­tised to be. When you use 40,000 rolls a year that adds up quick­ly! In this case, it added up to near­ly $30,000.

It put me in mind of Jesus’ para­ble of the shrewd man­ag­er, which he goes on to explain in Luke 16.10–12: “Unless you are faith­ful in small mat­ters, you won’t be faith­ful in large ones. If you cheat even a lit­tle, you won’t be hon­est with greater respon­si­bil­i­ties. And if you are untrust­wor­thy about world­ly wealth, who will trust you with the true rich­es of heav­en? And if you are not faith­ful with oth­er peo­ple’s mon­ey, why should you be trust­ed with mon­ey of your own?”