God at Work Devotional

Let God be Seen through your Work

In Matthew 5:16 we are instructed to “let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”

Let’s look at how to relate to this as a Kingdom builder.

‘Light’ - Jesus declared He was the Light and in this verse we are told to let our Light (Jesus in us) shine so He can be seen by all, wherever we are and go. This includes those we interact with daily in our marketplace.

‘See’ - Notice we aren’t instructed in this passage to speak or preach. There is an expectation that those around us will ‘see’ Jesus in the way we interact and conduct our business with them.

Our daily work life is our greatest testimony.

‘Good deeds’ - Good deeds are whatever you do. This is your work, your business, your assignment, and even your ‘to do’ list. 

Do it all to glorify God (Colossians 3:23).

‘Glorify your Father’ - We are not called to seek recognition on earth or to draw praise from others. 

We should always be ready to point to God as the source of our wisdom, knowledge, talent and skill.  After a professional sports match we often see and admire God loving athletes giving glory to God. 

Is there any reason why we shouldn’t be doing likewise in our marketplace?

Stories of Hope

Marching Into the Promised Land

Dan triumphantly overcomes the most troubling times of his life.

Our friend and fellow Kingdom builder Dan, at 62 years old describes his very recent experience overcoming the hardest season he’s ever experienced in life. 

“I felt like the whole world was against me, at times, I even felt like God had turned his back on me (or at least those are the feelings the enemy made me feel).

Sure, my business had essentially dissolved and was non-existent, but more importantly, my own children accused me of wrongdoing and had cut me out of their lives.

As a father, there was no worse feeling.

My ex-wife had accused me of something, essentially talking my granddaughter (who was more like a daughter to me since I helped raise her from a baby) into going with the narrative, and soon, legal action and court appearances followed.

I was broken, ashamed, lifeless, and depressed - words cannot explain the feeling.

I was like a walking lifeless zombie. 

While at the time I felt like it was literally the only option I had left in life, in hindsight, it was the (and always is) the best option I had. Although admittedly, I did feel abandoned by God at times during this season, I never stopped praying and seeking him out.

I was in the lion's den, the furnace, Egypt - all three places at once.

I remember standing there in court looking over at my family and just wondering “Why.”

Fast forward a few months - and tens of thousands of dollars in court and lawyer fees later - It turns out that my ex-wife's current husband was actually guilty of said crime, immediately placed in prison, and all of my charges were dismissed.

My take away?

Very rarely do we understand the reasoning for why we face certain hardships, especially while going through them.

We can feel literally inches away from breaking, from death, from giving up in life, but keep your eyes and your prayers focused on God.

At some points, I genuinely never thought I was going to make it out of that situation, but that didn’t stop me from keeping my eyes on God, and placing all of my faith in his Word.

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Financial Update

GENIUS Act - Stable Coins, What This Means for America.

There’s arguably always a new trending topic revolving around the cryptocurrency space, the most recent one that seems to have most on board is the push for stablecoins.

With the senate recently passing the GENIUS Act in early June, America now has it’s first regulatory framework for stablecoins

While overall we are net bullish on the further development and adoption of “safe” digital assets, there are some red flags we see with stablecoins and more importantly, the push to incorporate them into our country’s financial system. 

To clarify, a member of our team has been deeply involved in the cryptocurrency space since 2017 and have been advocating for it since then. Ironically, they even wrote an article on the potential dangers of stablecoins and more specifically, CBDCs (central bank digital coins) in 2021.

Stablecoins aim to bring “stability” and transparency to what is commonly known as a volatile market.

For instance, if there is a total supply of 1,000,000 tokens of a stablecoin, there is said to be an exact match of $1,000,000 USD, where each one of the million tokens is equally represented by $1 USD held in reserves.

While this sounds good in theory, it brings up an age-old factor that made cryptocurrencies so appealing over the traditional fiat system - transparency.

Of course, regularly scheduled (and thorough) audits could easily solve this concern.

Where our biggest hesitation lies over stablecoins and more specifically CBDCs, stems from the case study of China’s “Digital Yuan” experiment.

China’s “Digital Yuan” experiment

• The digital yuan is a central bank digital currency that China first began developing in 2014 and started rolling out exclusively to citizens in Beijing in 2021.

• Citizens would enter a lottery-like giveaway where each citizen had the chance to win 200 digital yuan ($31 USD in value.)

• If they won, they would download an electronic wallet on their phone, and the digital yuan would be sent to them to be stored in said wallet. 

Free money, who wouldn’t want that, right?

But the “catch” soon became apparent.

• The digital yuan was much more than just a digital stablecoin - it soon surfaced that the coin was being used to track the participants holding it, from their spending habits, down to their every move - literally.

• Participants discovered that the coin was being used more so as a social experiment to help shape a social credit system, where they would be rewarded (or punished) based on their daily actions.
  If they J-walked, their point system would decrease; late to make a payment on a loan? Yes, you guessed it, their social credit balance would decrease - but that’s not where it ended.

• This social credit system extended far beyond just an aesthetic rating, it began to affect whether they could acquire a home loan, or even fly out of the country. If their rating decreased past a certain threshold, then they would be gridlocked and confined to a certain radius of living.

Our main point was that due diligence, no matter how good something seems on a surface level, is vital, especially for business-minded believers and investors. 

What’s your thoughts on stablecoins and more specifically CBDC’s?

Do you believe they could help or hurt us as a nation?

Share your thoughts in the comments section. We enjoy reading them all:

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