The CEO

“So that in everything He might have the supremacy”

(Colossians 1:18)

I was never in business for myself.  I never worked in the corporate world.  However, I do know one thing I have learned from being in ministry – there needs to be someone at the top.  Everything rises and falls on leadership.  There needs to be someone who takes the responsibility for success as well as failure.  Someone who has the final say, who makes the ultimate decision.   The one with the sign on their desk that reads “The buck stops here.”

So, back in 1914, a young Canadian American entrepreneur started his own business in Stockton, Illinois.  With only the money he had in his pocket, he purchased a horse and buggy and started buying up other people’s products, then reselling them to local retail shops.  Well, things didn’t go exactly the way he had planned for them to go.  His business began failing and he found himself deeply in debt.  That was when a friend counseled him, “You need to give God your business.”  So, the young man thought about his friend’s advice and decided……well if God wants to run my business, He can do it.  He’ll be the senior partner and I’ll work for him.  From that moment on the business grew and prospered.

This is great advice not only for someone in business, but for all of us who are trying to maneuver through life.  As we begin this New Year, the best advice we can heed is to make Jesus Christ our senior partner to shoulder our burdens, to relieve us of our worries and anxieties, to guide and bless us, and to lighten our load.  If we truly believe that God has this entire world in his hands, then we should have no problem giving him our little corner of it.  We need Him to be the Lord of our ministry, our career, our business, our family, our relationships, everything we have and own.  That is the way to have our life blessed.  That is the way to prosper.  And that is the way to grow and mature. 

Make Jesus Christ the senior partner of your life and watch what he does.  He will do for you and me what he did for J.L. Kraft, President of the Kraft cheese company when he made God his senior partner.  When J.L. Kraft and his brothers merged with Heinz in 2015, their company became the fifth largest food corporation in the world.  With Jesus Christ as the CEO.

                                               Darlene