They dealt faithfully

Moreover they did not require an account from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully. – 2 Kings 12v15

I have always liked this little mention. Workers were hired to work on the Temple. Collections had been brought in to pay for the work. These were voluntary, free will offerings placed in to a box at the back of the Temple.

Certain men were appointed to pay the workers. It all seems pretty simple and mundane doesn’t it?

But look at the character of these men – ‘they did not require an account of the men…for they dealt faithfully.’

While I know that we have to keep careful records and that proper bookkeeping is important and all that I am challenged by this statement. These men who paid the workers did not have to turn in any receipts or timecards or bills or anything else; they just took the money and paid the workers. They had such a good reputation that no one questioned that they would do the right thing with the money.

I don’t have a lot to say about this. I just wonder how many of us have the kind of reputation that we could be trusted to handle funds like these guys did.

May we strive for the kind of faithful dealings that these men did that no one would ever think of questioning our character.