For the majority of business people, we'd sooner rely on hard facts and critical analysis in taking business decisions but experience has shown over and again that faith is perhaps an even more important factor in achieveing business success.
In dealing with what we like to call "cold hard facts" we forget to reckon as George Soros argues in his recent book The New Paradigm for Financial Markets that the interpreters of the data cannot disspassionately evaluate the data as they are themselves a part of the data. Consequently, whatever decisions we take strictly from the data we have is tainted by our own prejudices.
Writing in Management of the Absurd, Richard Farson argues that you can't research the future; in essence, it's only in laboratories that yesterday's data is sufficient basis for predicting the future; an educated guess is still really just a guess. In real life as in business, one singular event can and often does throw years of data into the trash can. Imagine the impact for instance that 9/11 had on businessess in the united states.
The prospects for business success instantly leaves the realm of probability and enters into infinitely positive certainty when our decision leaves the realm of information based prognosis and enters into revelation steeped prophecy.
God controls facts and in consequence, he controls outcomes. That is why his prophecy in 2kings 7 that the economy of Israel will experience unprecendented deflation in 24 hours came to pass. He knew what events to trigger to create the facts that will result in the outcome that he had spoken about.
Picture Isaac Gen 26 sowing in a dry parched land that hadn't seen rain in a while because he got revelation to stay back while everyone else was shipping off to Egypt. That's like getting revelation to buy a stock everyone is dumping, or invest in a dilapidating neighbourhood- you get the drift; it may not make sense when you consider the data but sure puts some girth on your bottomline.
What's faith got to do with it? Everything!
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In relation to God creating trigger events. The recent global economic meltdown which is now mandating countries to suggest things like a single global financial regulator is an indication as to how easy endtime events can be ochestrated.
ReplyDeleteThe irony of things is that those who have the holy scriptures are unable to see the bible as the ultimate source of all wisdom for whatever you want to do. Few among us understand the deep implications of Genesis 1:26-28 vis-a-vis the inate ability to dominate ALL THINGS without exception.
ReplyDeleteThe command to "occupy" till I come is not to people of no faith but to those whose "eye" of faith is wide open to understand and interpret the signs of the times and seasons as the sons of Issachar who were adept in knowing what Israel ought to do.
That wisdom is still available today to all those who in faith will simply follow the precepts laid down by Jesus. And I tell you "whatever he does, it shall prosper"