Very exactly, very precisely: that is the meaning of the original Greek word circumspectly. It means looking all around you.
It is no good living fifty percent of our time as we should, and then lapsing. It is no good having our speech right but not our conduct. We fail to turn up to work on time or we spend too much time on the PC in personal things, not work. Everything counts. I knew a man, a manager, and he said I have three Christians in my department and they all steal company stationery. No wonder the word of God says, ‘Live circumspectly. Never blaspheme. Never boast. Never lie. Don’t let the manager see you as someone who squirms out of trouble by a lie. Don’t be testy and irritable. Never share in filthy talk. Never return hostility in kind.’ I knew a professing Christian who ran a business with a big turnover and a Christian witnessed to his secretary, and she said, ‘You don’t know what he does, putting prices up and down!’ Never be sloppy, selfish. Pay attention to timekeeping. You don’t know what harm you do to yourself if you are undisciplined about timekeeping; you weaken yourself for so many other areas of life.