EXCEL AT WORK AND CONTINUE IN GOD

TEXT: Daniel 6:1-5

In the Bible days, men and women who were doing impacts in the business, political and economic spheres were people who knew God and were driven by unalloyed passion for God and not the world. The “God-factor” they had was the edge they had over others. They were both spiritual and brilliantly excellent; they were spiritual and prosperous; they were spiritual and influential. The people of the world knew them and knew what they carried – they carried God. They were Heavenly conscious and earthly relevant. Mankind has not recovered from some trans-generational legacies some of them left behind. They demonstrated that spirituality and mediocrity are simply not compatible!

Abraham was a believer as well as livestock farmer. Joseph was a believer and also a Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture. Daniel was incurably addicted to God and was an indispensable politician – special adviser, governor and president. He didn’t take a single kobo that was not his own! What a testimony!! Their relationship with God never suffered and their excellence plus integrity at work was never in doubt.

Today, things have changed. This generation now use spirituality as an excuse or reason for mediocrity and/or failure at work. Then it uses work as an excuse for failed spirituality. People use job availability as an excuse why their spiritual lives suffer and some claim to be so spiritual to the point of being a minus at work and liability to others. This is not the kind of faith that was handed over to us. Something is wrong somewhere. We must go back to the Old Landmark in all its ramifications and not just some selected doctrines.

We must ask ourselves; ‘Is it the same Heaven that these patriarchs went to that we are preparing for by the way we live our lives carelessly, full of excuses and built on compromises?’ These men would stand one day as witnesses. They didn’t witness grace as we do, but they contended with human-devils and enemies, fought lions and walked through the shadows of threats and death, and yet they stood for God (Hebrews 11:33-34). Today, just a little challenge people compromise; just a little job they get, they become unable to pray and have time for God, and worst of all – they start changing figures. On that day, like Paul said in Romans 2:1; “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man” because these fathers will share their own testimonies.