158. VII. EVERY MAN WHO LOOKS TO THE LORD AND SHUNS EVILS AS SIN, IF HE SINCERELY, JUSTLY, AND FAITHFULLY DOES THE WORK OF HIS OFFICE AND EMPLOYMENT, BECOMES A FORM OF CHARITY. This follows as a consequence from the preceding law, that man is born that he may become charity; and he cannot become charity unless he perpetually does the good of use from affection and its delight. Therefore when a man sincerely, justly, and faithfully does the work that belongs to his office or employment, from affection and its delight, he is continually in the good of use, not only to the community or public, but also to individuals and private citizens. But this cannot be unless he looks to the Lord and shuns evils as sins; for, as was shown above, to look to the Lord and shun evils as sins is the first of charity (n. 8); and the second of charity is to do goods. And the goods that he does are goods of use, which he does every day, and which, when he is not doing, he thinks of doing. There is an interior affection which inwardly remains and desires it. Hence it is that he is perpetually in the good of use, from morning to evening, from year to year, from his earliest age to the end of his life. Otherwise he cannot become a form, that is, a receptacle of charity.