Vision - Unjust Steward

hris,

Here is what happened when I was typing out the article titled "The Unjust Steward."

1.  I was explaining this verse for Carl's wife Candy. As I started to get a little further into it, I started to get a vision in my mind's eye.

I saw a man straddling a brown picket type farm fence. One leg was on one side of the fence and the other leg was on the other side. He was looking out at green farm pasture. There was no one around him. He was totally alone.

As I am looking at him, I am directly behind him - about 15-20 yards behind him. And I can only see his back. I can't see his face.

As soon as this "picture" comes in, I see words hovering above him and the words are "American Christian business man."

2.  I then get an immediate knowing that God is telling me through this vision that there are many American Christian business men who are having a hard time fully surrendering and turning their lives over to Him for His direction and handling. The reason for this is that they know they have the intelligence and know-how to gain incredible amounts of wealth from this country because it is truly there for the taking for the people that have the intelligence to do so.

They are afraid if they turn their lives over to God the Father and enter into His perfect will and plan for their lives, that they may have to sacrifice their one and only chance to gain this kind of wealth while living down here on this earth. They feel their true business talents will be wasted, and that God will have them doing something else that will not give them as much wealth and prosperity, along with not being able to maximize what they feel are their true business talents.

However, they also know Scripture well enough to know that God wants this full surrender of their lives, that He knows better than they do what they should be doing with their lives, and that they will be more highly rewarded in heaven if they do God's perfect will for their life rather than doing their own will.

Even though they have the head knowledge on what they should really be doing with the Lord, they still have this inner struggle on really being able to fully surrender and turn their lives over to God to do His will for their lives rather than their own. The lure and challenge of the business game is very enticing for them. They love the challenge because they will be highly rewarded with maximum wealth if their business plans and strategies work out for them. For many of them, the challenge of being able to obtain this kind of possible wealth is their ultimate high.

They feel that if they fully surrender to God's will and plan for their lives, that they will lose this challenge and high for their lives, and that God's job and call on their lives may be boring and not as exciting compared to what they could accomplish all on their own in the business field.

3.  I then get a second knowing that as a result of the above struggle between themselves and God on this issue, that many of these men end up staying on the fence post for most, if not all of their entire lives. They never make a final decision to fully go one way or the other. Every time they press too far into the business world and start to gain some success, they then start to feel God pulling on them, and they are then once more back in the wrestling mode with God as to who is going to be running their lives.

I then see other Christian business men who feel the above conflict within themselves, but the draw and pull of the business game is simply too overwhelming for them to resist, and they basically tell God by their actions that they will run their own lives and decide which direction their life will now go in. And many of these men will end up becoming very wealthy during their lifetime because they know how to play the game to get rich.

However, their rewards in heaven will be far less than the man who does God's will for their life. And Heaven is for eternity, this life is just for a very brief moment compared to the eternal time frame that is operating in heaven.

4.  The other point that I don't think I emphasized enough was that for the business man who doesn't think that God can match the challenge, excitement and intensity of the business game is wrong. That if these business men would turn their entire lives over to God the Father in a full and complete surrender, that God would maximize their true talents, and that they would end up accomplishing a lot more in this life when everything is all finally said and done as versus trying to do all of it on their own.

I even picked up a knowing that God would bless many of these people with abundant wealth because they would really deserve it. People like this are the movers and shakers in the world today. They make things happen because they have visions and plans on how to succeed. God would have no problems in blessing these people with wealth because it would then be reinvested into whatever God would want them to do with it and the engine would just keep on running with God in full control.

These people have God-given business talents, and with many of these people, God would keep them in the business game - but it would be His choice as to which businesses they would be involved in and they would have to stay with His leadings on how to successfully run that business.

Many of these people feel that if they turn their lives over to God in this full surrender, that God would take them off the business playing field and send them to be missionaries in some far off and poor country where they would only be working for pennies a day compared to what they could make and earn in our country.

I think many of these business men would be pleasantly surprised if they would allow God to take full and complete control of their lives and go with His plans for their lives rather than their own.

Bottom line - when it is all said and done - the American Christian business man will have been far better off allowing God to direct and control his life rather than he himself calling his own shots. I believe that the ones who end up calling their own shots while down here on this earth will be shown how much more they could have accomplished had they been operating under a full surrender with God the Father from the very beginning.

And once they find out how much more they could have accomplished in this life with God being in total control of their lives - they will end up carrying an eternal regret that they blew their one and only chance to max out with what their true talents were while living down here on this earth.

The only solution for the man on this fence post is that he has to come to the final realization that only God knows what is best for his life, he does not. Only God knows what his real true talents are, he does not. Only God can take you successfully up the mountaintop to reach the highest peaks you are capable of reaching - you cannot.

These men, when it all is said and done, will be shown that the peaks that they had reached on their own were nothing compared to the peaks that God could have led then up into had He been in total control of their lives from the very beginning. And this will thus end up being an eternal regret they will carry far into the next life.

And as competitive as most of these men are, this eternal regret will carry a sting with it, because they will realize that they should have known better and should have let God have full and complete control of their lives.

Their natural intelligence and logic will then tell them that only God is all-perfect and all-powerful and that He was the only One that could have taken them to the highest peaks they were capable of reaching in this lifetime - and that they missed their one and only chance to allow this to happen through the Lord in this lifetime.

Chris, I don't know how much of the above applies to your friend, but all of the above is what came up on me as I was in the middle of typing that article out.

 

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