Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy Psalm 86:1

Often, in the midst of a hectic week, it is easy to feel like we are losing our mental and spiritual equilibrium, isn’t it? There are projects to be started and completed, decisions to be made, meetings to participate in, work to be done and a myriad of activities involving family and friends. In looking over everything we need to get done it is easy to feel overwhelmed, to become aware of our limitations and experience a sense of inadequacy.


Why not try following the example of some of the most successful people in the history of American business? Men like John D. Rockefeller, J.C. Penney, J. L. Craft, John Danforth (founder of Purina), Milton S. Hershey and countless others who, realizing their poverty and need in certain areas of their lives made their faith an integral part of their business lives.


Certainly, these men weren’t perfect and they made mistakes, but each of them demonstrated a reliance on Almighty God and their religious faith as they understood it. So if you are feeling somewhat inadequate or overwhelmed by all the things you’ve still got to co this week, why not acknowledge your poverty and need in these areas of your life and talk it over with God.

You may not become as rich as Rockefeller or have your name on a retail store or chocolate bar but you will experience the wonderfully amazing presence of God’s guiding hand. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy