SCRIPTURE:

For we are labourers together with God (1 Corinthians 3:9)

DEVOTIONAL:

When Adam and Eve sinned and were put out of the garden of Eden, they began to produce another culture, a culture that was built outside the presence of the One True God. It was a culture originating from the mind of its architect, satan, and not from our Creator. Soon, laws were made to support this culture and to legalize its destructive influence.

Without God, society is stuck with inferior principles getting inferior results. Without the wisdom of God to make divinely directed decisions, the world remains on a course of self-destruction. The book of Proverbs says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

In six of the seven pillars shaping our society—government, business, education, media, the family, and arts and entertainment—there has been a conspicuous absence of faith in God. The seventh pillar is religion. What happened? Faith left the marketplace. Today, in almost every nation, crime, corruption, and cyber-terrorism have increased and global poverty is on the rise. We cannot solve today’s problems without the wisdom of God.  

God gave us dominion over all Creation. We are not to sit idle  but to participate in transforming the earth into what God intended it to be from the beginning, moving all His creation to His glorious end. “For we are labourers together with God” (1 Corinthians 3:9). You and I are born for such a time as this.

PRAYER:

Father in Heaven, I repent over every time I have yielded to doing things according to the world’s way. Thank you for giving me dominion in my sphere of influence. By faith, I receive Your wisdom to fulfill Your plans and purposes in my life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s unprecedented book, Faith and the Marketplace. To order this “God’s way of doing business” book, click here.

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