Letters For Living - The World of Business & The Word of God

[LettersForLiving]

Hi All,

This is my first post on this forum and I hope for it to be the first of many!

My name is Josh, and I've recently started a new blog called Letters For Living, which links pieces of scripture to daily business life. The content is adapted from a series of weekly letters from the chaplain and spiritual adviser of The Fortune Group, a training services provider with whom I'm employed. We post a letter every Sunday and also plan to include content from other contributors throughout the rest of the week.

We want to share it with everyone here at LampStandStudy and open a discussion about our weekly letters. We are also looking for contributors to the blog which you can read more about upon visiting.

So I invite you all to have a read and discuss! Share with others! Make contributions!

I will leave you with an except from our latest letter:

Are you discouraged? Could it be that you know that within you is more than what you have become? Look up, my friend – it isn’t too late. Look now toward heaven. Put your life in the hands of god who created you for a purpose. Believe in the Lord. Trust Him with your life. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” (Prov. 3:6 (KJV) The Psalmist said, “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, our of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.” (Psalm 40:2-3 (KJV) And He will do the same for you!

[Pariah]

Welcome, Josh, to the forum: BTW.

Thank you for the link and offering excerpts from your blog.

One thing I may want to speak on is that the call to do better and seek a better life isn't a call that has been given to Baruch in the OT. God told him not to seek a life for himself for evil is about to fall on all flesh, and He has given his life as a prey unto others.

I am not sure how anyone cannot be discouraged from that, but as I am living it, His peace is with me, keeping me from wrath and malice of those that are too powerful for me. I accept that I cannot defend myself nor stand up for myself. I accept that they will stop at nothing to prevent me from getting a job and, if I managed to get one, keeping it. My enemies are so powerful, they sow discords among my relatives.

Their intentions are clear and determined.

I read the Psalms and find myself identifying with them in some if not most of their words in a particular Psalm or Pslams.

I reckon I am sharing that if anyone despair at your exhortation to better their lives, they can turn to the Psalms when there are limitations outside their control in preventing them from seeking that better life for themselves.

It is not a cop out to recognize the limit of what we can do in the face of powerful foes.

I am sure that the saints going through the great tribulation will see great limitations in seeking a better life for themselves when the mark of the beast system is in place.

So for all those that are discouraged, know that you are not alone. Others have gone through similar situations as you will find in the Pslams and the comfort in reading His Words will bring, but we also have this truth that Jesus is with us always.. even in death..the greatest limitation of all in seeking a better life for oneself down here...but we have this assurance from God... to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord... as He is with us always, after having been bought with a price and sealed as His.

Do continue to share letters for the living, and may I contribute by pointing to the Psalms as letters for the living from the Biblical past? It has been a great comfort to me as Jesus is for being with me always. Amen.

[Onesiphorus]

Dear Josh ,yes welcome ,and I hope you too will be a regular poster here ,
Reading the devotional studies ,my main thrust would be that if you are a born again believer in Christ ,then the assurances we have as you find in the first 3 chapters of Colossians of who we are because of Christ ,then it is to Christ who was birthed in us rhat we we must look to ,the more we look to what we can ,do or have done the more aware we are of of fleshly nature and the more we try in the physical to overcome ..stop looking at ourselves and stop feeding our ego ,but feed on the word of God and the new creation Christ won for us

Rest in the assurances of who we are not what we do and discouragement should flee from us because we are not bound by the cosmos or the economies and measurements of this world but by the promise we have now received from our loving Father

Grace and peace in Christ

[ByHisGrace]

Welcome to Lampstand Josh, and thank you for your interesting post. The versed below came to my mind. It's nothing of me and all of Him

1 John 4:4 (New King James Version)
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Philippians 4:12-14 (King James Version)
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.