18 April 2011
Luke 16:10-11 "He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
There worst form of corruption is inefficiency, when people are placed in positions and who cannot perform their work because of bad training and an inept attitude to the work itself. A classical example of this is the billing system of the Joburg Metro, the meter readers are employed by a private company, the input is set into a system that is so sophisticated that it would make NASA seem archaic, and the people using the system have no idea how to use it and actually make it work. So one month you are billed for electricity you never used, you are then extorted into paying the fictitious bill or face disconnection, after months they finally get the account correct, and then the water meter is incorrectly read and you have to pay an astronomical account for water you never used, extorted into payment and the cycle starts all over again.
The senior management of the supply departments are upset for being blamed for inefficiency that lays at the feet of the Billing section and no one has the willingness to actually correct the problem. In this regard we all need to be aware that in the work we do, we need to be able to give value for the money we earn and that people who we work with and work for will recognise that we perform our tasks correctly and efficiently. We all need to be encouraged to do our work to the best of our ability whether it is washing windows or preparing a legal brief or doing the ironing.
Be encouraged today to take our work seriously and do it as if we were doing it for Jesus Himself
Point to ponder: Corruption is the fruit of bad government.
Question to consider: Do you tolerate corruption?
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