MERGE is a concept of bringing together your spiritual and business lives. We often compartmentalize our business activities and our church activities. God is the God of everything; He is the CEO of the universe. We have been trained to think these are separate and there are many factors that have formed our belief system of dual thinking. One way to test your thinking is to ask yourself how do you read scripture, through your church glasses or through your calling in the marketplace glasses. Let’s test it, read this excerpt from the story of David and Goliath in I Samuel 17 and tell me what it’s saying to you.
24 “As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright. 25 ‘Have you seen the giant?’ the men asked. ‘He comes out each day to defy Israel. The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man’s entire family will be exempted from paying taxes!’
26 David asked the soldiers standing nearby, ‘What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?’”
You may read this as a story of a young boy who had courage to slay a giant that represented God’s incredible power and grace. You may not be reading through the lens of your marketplace calling. If you see in this passage that David was considering the risk and the financial gain or profit, then you may be having a marketplace view. As a business leader you can see this as a business principle for how to proceed with risky decisions.
The Bible will come alive to you if you read it through your marketplace calling.
MERGE Moments capturing where we can expect, seek, and find God in our professional lives.
