—1 Corinthians 3:10-11
Let me ask you this:
Probably never, right?
Putting gasoline in your gas tank is foundational to operating your car. You honor and obey that design so your car fulfills its purpose and stays in good condition.
Now let me ask you this: When was the last time you prioritized your work or your business at the expense of your relationship with God, your wife, or your kids?
When you arrange your decisions contrary to God’s design—regardless of your reason why—you are putting milk in your existential gas tank. Your life will stall out, you will be tempted to fix the problem with further compromise, and the first ones to feel the pain will often be the ones you claim to love.
I’ve been there.
We were designed to function a certain way. There is a distinct, Real, intended relational architecture that exists between us and every aspect of our lives (including wife, kids, and business).
When we honor and obey the intended design of those relational architectures, you are present in your life, caring for that which is yours to steward, and, you find yourself experientially supported in this life—in body, soul, and spirit.
Jesus Christ radically saved me out of the depths of esoteric, occult, new-age spirituality. All that stuff worked very well, and that was the problem.
I had fabricated a disturbingly accurate replica of what God had prepared for me in His Kingdom. All of that disintegrated when He showed up in my life—I went from making $20k/month as a massage therapist turned energy-healer turned business coach… to being community-less, business-less, and homeless for a season.
That wasn’t punishment. It was mercy.
The counterfeit life and business I had built was existentially incapable of hosting or enduring the Presence of God. When He showed up, everything that could be shaken was shaken, in order that He Himself might establish me according to the dimensions of Him who is unshakable.
He knows what our lives and businesses look like fulfilled, in His will, and founded upon His Eternal Power. He knows what structures—and relationships—are needed to support and reflect His glory in and through our lives.
Artificial intelligence can not help with any of this—it did not make you, and it does not have the Spirit of God. To put it in another’s words, “AI can help you run faster along a known path. It cannot tell you where the path should go.”
Only the Holy Spirit knows the mind of God, and only He can make known to you the paths He has prepared for you to walk in from before the beginning of time.
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