Keller's 'Every Good Endeavor'

In chapters 11 and 12, Every Good Endeavor closes out by emphasizing while work can be good, it all depends on the worker behind it. In chapter 11, Keller focuses on ethics and how it is more than just right and wrong, but it also a trust issue between us and God. Committing an act that is unethical in the work place is essentially saying to God "I don't trust all that you have done and have planned for my life, so I feel the need to take things into my own hands and cut corners to reach my purpose.” Committing an unethical act in the workplace can seem like it has such microscopic consequences, but when we zoom out and look at the long term affects, we see that it can cause a terrifying amount of damage. When we keep sin and secrets in the

dark behind closed doors, not allowing God to reveal us, the problem can grow bigger than we originally had planned for it to grow. The problem with that is that when we are in the dark we have no measure or gage of how large the situation has grown because the path we have taken has blinded us so we are blindsided when we are brought out into the light to see that it is overtaking us in size. Essentially what Keller wants to communicate in the last few chapters of Every Good Endeavor is that work is good, it was God's intention for us. However, it is important that we work in the way that he created us to do so in. He created us to work with a pure heart and not to overtake you. He did not desire you to be a slave to work, but it be something that you have a strength in that empowers you.