It's Official. I'm terminated as of 31 Dec 2006. Well, I'm still teaching at Payap University, Chiangmai, Thailand. My family and I are now released into the Hands of the Lord. On one hand, it's a great relief. On the other hand, uncharted waters lay ahead.
I am reminded of the Apostle Paul's words:
“Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.” Philippians 4:11, 12, NASB.
www.contentment.biz will be undergoing a facelift to more properly reflect what I believe. Nothing philosophically wrong with the marketing technique. It's just that some of the products shown do not reflect what I hold dear. I was a business graduate 17 years ago. The names and philosophies haven't changed that much. But when God called me to serve Him full-time in 1994, somehow all those business strategies, marketing techniques and other self-help philosophies lost their meaning.
When I knew I was going to be released from church employment to that of a purely tentmaking role [i.e. no longer gainfully employed but given a token support], I just wanted to be sure that the Scriptures that God had used to call me into His Service still held the same Promise.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:24-34, KJV.
They still do. I cannot see myself "selling" anything I do not believe in save the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Also only something that I actually use would I feel free to represent. My conscience would not allow me otherwise.
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