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February 20, 2010 09:16:36
Posted By Ed B
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One of the reasons I write here is to vent. Another is to entertain. Yet What that means to me is that God is still active in peoples lives on a personal level. He provides, He directs, He hears and He speaks to and through humans. This is the prophetic. He also gifts people with special abilities: the ability to teach well, to lead and guide people, manage and administrate, and to counsel. Joseph, in the Book of Genesis, was an early example of this. His older brothers decide to teach him a lesson. They attempt to kill him, but relent, sell him to some passing slavers and report him dead to their father. Following Godly principles, he rose to managing a rich man's household from being his slave. The boss's wife found him attractive and he rejected her advances. She accused him. He got thrown in prison, and ended up running the place. He came to Pharoah's attention (through supernatural means) and eventually he was administrating the Egyptian kingdom.
The man is taken away to "business school" as a captive. He's supposed to eat what's considered the best food in the land but he argues to be given what his God requires instead, challenging his superiors to monitor the results. They approve and concur. Most of the other students are "going with the program".
This later gets him in some hot water (a lion's den) but it's all resolved to his advantage (he isn't eaten, his rivals are). Church and State issues, I guess. Eventually, Daniel is given administrative control of the Empire. Different political challenges arise, but he deals with them well, demonstrating that the godly mangement techniques are superior. Then the ultimate hostile takeover occurs. A rival "corporation" raids the enterprise (not in the Wall Street sense), removes the current owners (heads) and asks Daniel to continue managing the enterprise for them. There's something to learn there. If you read it. |