Infiltrate to RemediateSample

Devotional Content

In the modern era, under a business ideology of profit-driven capitalism, we are taught from the cradle to the grave to accumulate wealth at all costs. Our modern economic modeling is centered on competing for market share at the expense of others. If we can win more market share, we are doing well, despite putting others out of business, even the family we were sitting next to in church yesterday! Maximizing self-interest at the expense of others leads to the survival of the fittest at the cost of the weak.

This can only lead to financial hardship, domestic violence, poverty, homelessness, desperate measures such as crime, robbery, prostitution, sex slavery, human trafficking, and all manner of human suffering. Eventually, it leads to social breakdown and revolutions. It is completely unsustainable and is the counterculture of the kingdom of God. It is a model-driven by greed and self-centeredness, and it reflects the realm of the devil.

This is what we must infiltrate and remediate, and the Bible teaches us the model to follow; a culture of caring and sharing as the only road to universal prosperity, abundance, and human flourishing.

In the book of Ruth, Boaz was a wealthy landowner who made sure he left sufficient corn in his fields for the poorer people to glean from his enterprise. This allowed the poor people to collect enough to eat and have an overflow to provide “seed capital” from which to create their enterprise. As a result, the region of Bethlehem prospered during a time of global famine, and Boaz became a “mighty man of wealth.”

Every industry and sector today is dominated by greed and corruption, which is no surprise because our current economic model follows the devil's kingdom. For example, the following industries urgently need remediation: banking, law, government, pharmaceuticals/health care, and mining.

So, God puts righteous people into these unrighteous sectors to fix them.

Tomorrow I will share a personal example of the “Infiltrate to Remediate” strategy that my company has used on a macro-level.