Years ago having been in the Hotel/Restaurant industry for a few years, there came a time when my wisdom dictated that I had to venture into business then. Tired of working and making money for other people ( I hear many people say this all the time), I thought it was time to start my very own. Armed with enough experience,I started both a catering business and a restaurant simultaneously. At this point of my life, things were going very well, business was booming but my relationship with God became worse. Here I was, trying to make money and had little time for the things of God. I was trying to build this business on a very fragile foundation. I did not pray nor seek God for His favor, nor did I seek His will or even direction. I just wanted to become successful. Thing is, God WANTS us to be successful BUT in order to succeed (in whatever area of our lives), we must build our foundation in Him. Rest assured that if God is in it, IT WILL SUCCEED NO MATTER WHAT! This lesson is applicable to all areas and aspects of our lives.
The tall and short of this story, is that the business failed due to many reasons. I lost the money I had invested. I made the decision to go back on my knees and seek God afresh. It took me a long while to find my footing again but this time, I did not let go of God. QUESTION: WHERE AND IN WHAT ARE YOU INVESTING? WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO INVEST IN GOD OR IN EARTHLY THINGS WHICH...WILL PERISH SOON OR LATER!
"which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it..." (Luke 14:28)
The Lord Jesus was not referring to a cost which we have to count, but to a cost which He has already counted. The cost was those thirty years of popularity, hatred, the unfathomable agony He experienced in Gethsemane, the assault upon Him the calvary-the central point upon which all time and eternity turn.
The conditions of discipleship given by our Lord in verses 26, 27 and 33 mean that the men and women He is going to use in His mighty building of the Kingdom are those whom He has done everything.
All that we build will be is going to be inspected by God. When God inspects us with His searching and refining fire, will He detect that we have built empires and of our own on the foundation of Jesus? (See 1 corinthians 3:10-15). We are living in a time of tremendous enterprise, a time when we are trying to work for God, and that is where the btrap is. Jesus, as the master builder, take
s us over so that He may direct and control us completely for His kingdom and His building plan; and we don't have a right to demand where we will be put to work.
As we learn to walk and trust God, we need to come to place where we will re-organize our Goals, re-arrange our priorities and then we will re-alize all that God has for us.
THIS IS OUR GOD!!
Have a blessed day!!
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