Proverbs 17:16 (AMP) Of what use is money in the hand of a [self-confident] fool to buy skillful and godly Wisdom--when he has no understanding or heart for it?
When I read this today, I could not help but think of the AIG boondoggle and ancillary stories of funds misused. Funds were given without the oversight needed to change processes - yielding a different result. The use of taxpayer money was neither skillful nor Godly. And then, there is the foolishness of the recipient, ignoring the intent of the gift, continues to do things in the same manner producing an old result. The stories coming out of Wall Street seem to beg the question: what good is it to provide money seeing that they have no mind for wisdom in the use of it?
For business leaders, the analogy may break down with rigorous analysis; however, one lesson for Leaders is that God’s great goodness is spent even on those who are living life as fools - the ones who are in the most need and have no desire for Him.
Your team, employees, vendors, customers need to see, in you, the practical behavior that results from your willingness to “buy skillful and godly Wisdom.” The world needs to see in our behavior that our purchase was worth the price and that the Wisdom given remains unchanged - unlike the mercurial movement of relative truth. Armed with the Word, we point those watching in the direction of eternal truths that have, time and time again, proven valuable in a business setting.
Believing leader: remember, God reached out for us when we were fools (self-absorbed in life, operating as our own god); because of His grace, we now have a heart for Wisdom. Let His grace shine brightly in your life.
Are you willing to “let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven…?”
Copyright ©2009 by P. Griffith Lindell
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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