{"id":883,"date":"2002-09-26T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/09\/26\/faithfulness-in-small-smelly-things\/"},"modified":"2002-09-26T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2002-09-26T19:06:21","slug":"faithfulness-in-small-smelly-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/09\/26\/faithfulness-in-small-smelly-things","title":{"rendered":"Faithfulness in Small, Smelly Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could\u00adn\u2019t help but laugh when I ran across this news arti\u00adcle<\/a>. I quote:<\/p>\n

Count\u00ading toi\u00adlet roll sheets proved a suc\u00adcess for a vig\u00adi\u00adlant British work\u00ader who won his employ\u00ader thou\u00adsands of pounds in com\u00adpen\u00adsa\u00adtion after he dis\u00adcov\u00adered that some rolls were not as long as they should be.<\/i><\/p>\n

Turns out the rolls were less than 2\/3 the size they were adver\u00adtised to be. When you use 40,000 rolls a year that adds up quick\u00adly! In this case, it added up to near\u00adly $30,000.<\/p>\n

It put me in mind of Jesus\u2019 para\u00adble of the shrewd man\u00adag\u00ader<\/a>, which he goes on to explain in Luke 16.10\u201312<\/a>: \u201cUnless you are faith\u00adful in small mat\u00adters, you won\u2019t be faith\u00adful in large ones. If you cheat even a lit\u00adtle, you won\u2019t be hon\u00adest with greater respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties. And if you are untrust\u00adwor\u00adthy about world\u00adly wealth, who will trust you with the true rich\u00ades of heav\u00aden? And if you are not faith\u00adful with oth\u00ader peo\u00adple\u2019s mon\u00adey, why should you be trust\u00aded with mon\u00adey of your own?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could\u00adn\u2019t help but laugh when I ran across this news arti\u00adcle. I quote: Count\u00ading toi\u00adlet roll sheets proved a suc\u00adcess for a vig\u00adi\u00adlant British work\u00ader who won his employ\u00ader thou\u00adsands of pounds in com\u00adpen\u00adsa\u00adtion after he dis\u00adcov\u00adered that some rolls were not as long as they should be. Turns out the rolls were less \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cFaith\u00adful\u00adness in Small, Smelly Things\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}