Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Business, Money and God
Hamo inspired this post with his.
First off money is like oxygen in todays world.
You are mad if you say you don't need it.
However I think the issue in middle class suburbia is their lives are about getting money. Its their focus, and when they haven't got enough then they whine.
I think our calling is to;
1) Remove the focus on the getting or acquiring of money and understand that God provides - really trust him for that. I guess as business owners we have really come to understand that by not having a guaranteed wage. In fact going further I believe that as I honour god in my personal life he honours my businesses and blesses them.
2) I think that helping others unreservedly and without personal regard to the cost is so foreign and different to the general grasping nature of most middle classes (I generalise) that we can stand out that way also.
I am reminded of the verse James 1:27, "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world"
First off money is like oxygen in todays world.
You are mad if you say you don't need it.
However I think the issue in middle class suburbia is their lives are about getting money. Its their focus, and when they haven't got enough then they whine.
I think our calling is to;
1) Remove the focus on the getting or acquiring of money and understand that God provides - really trust him for that. I guess as business owners we have really come to understand that by not having a guaranteed wage. In fact going further I believe that as I honour god in my personal life he honours my businesses and blesses them.
2) I think that helping others unreservedly and without personal regard to the cost is so foreign and different to the general grasping nature of most middle classes (I generalise) that we can stand out that way also.
I am reminded of the verse James 1:27, "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world"
