Corporate Managment

Since the time the Lord called me to serve full-time I have always been holding the view that I should simple serve as a slave, even a faithful and prudent slave, without any opinion and with all simplicity. The Lord's arrangement in my service is such that I have to serve in the literature service which is legally registered to the government of India and formally set up as a corporate office. I never had any intention to serve in a way of exercising authority or carrying out administrative management. But the service I am assigned to is such that I cannot avoid corporate management. It's no longer a choice, but a must. I wish that someone else can do all the administrative works and I simply follow in obedience what was instructed to me. Now the case is, I am assigned to be that "someone" though not alone, I cannot escape this assignment. I have been praying for wisdom that the Lord be my Head and my wisdom in every corporate affair of the company.

The past two weeks had been filled with fellowship and making a corporate official decision concerning many "company affairs." A brother and I would sit and fellowship for hours on the situation of the serving ones and many official matters. It was a good time of learning from one another how to handle persons, matters and things. At times, we had to take hard and difficult decisions and deny my personal opinion. Even in this way, the Lord is training and perfecting me. By serving in this way of corporate management I am serving Him too.

This is one of the main reasons why I decided to pray specifically for my service the Lord has blessed me with. To pray for wisdom and understanding and take Christ as my wisdom and head. I know no other way nor better way than asking God for wisdom and understanding and taking Christ as my wisdom and understanding in corporate management.

1 Kings3:7 And now, O Jehovah my God, You have made Your servant king in the place of David my father, though I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.3:8 And Your servant is in the midst of Your people, whom You have chosen, a vast people that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.3:9 Give therefore to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?3:11 And God said to him, Because you have asked for this matter and have not asked for long life for yourself and have not asked for riches for yourself and have not asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for discernment for yourself to understand justice;3:12 I now do according to your words. I now give you a heart of wisdom and understanding, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor will one rise up after you like you.3:13 And I also give you that for which you did not ask, both riches and glory, so that there will be no one among kings like you all your days.
4:28 And they also brought to the place where it should be, barley and straw for the horses and steeds, each according to his charge.4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and very much understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.4:30 And Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

All services are for the Lord and to the Lord. The best way to serve in any service is to serve by taking Christ as our wisdom, understanding and discernment, and looking up to Him as the Counselor, Advocate, and Judge.