Surely He will bless ...

Every day I hear speculations that sound so good to the ear but remain so far from God's heart. I think it was A W Tozer who said, "Our thoughts are too worldly for God".

One of the arguments I hear time and again, is the promise to use future success for God's glory, in return for today's blessing. I am sad to say, that as it was for Jacob of old, God don't do deals. We cannot bargain our way into his good books and making all kinds of statements to look good in the hopes that it will win His favor is simply folly. If God needs to take us through deep waters to perfect us for a higher purpose, He will do it, regardless of how good our counter offer sounds.

We tend to build businesses and the related goals, around the presumption that, because I am doing this thing to God's glory, blessings should follow. It doesn't work like that. Blessings flow from the cross, not from our works. We cannot win God's favor, He loves us already. We can only disinherit ourselves through wilful disobedience and unbelief. There is only one thing we can do that is sure to please God, that is to hold onto faith when nothing else makes sense, even when He leads us through painful contradictions. 

The problem with building business goals around misplaced assumptions, is that we then forego principle, get in over our heads, tempt God and end up in a heap of problems. Failure will always happen unless our lives are guided by His Word mixed with Faith, rather than by sentiment and good ideas - that is not a speculative view, it is a mathematical certainty.

(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.groundwon.blogspot.com