As I reflect on what it means to be a Kingdom Business Owner — my guttural response was working with excellence, integrity, and being above reproach.

Then the Holy Spirit gently reminded me of a sermon my pastor recently preached where he said “Proverbs works. And it works for everyone. It’s pretty sure fire that if you’re following Proverbs you’re going to succeed.”

However, the reality is you can do all of that without actually being ‘at home’ in Jesus”.  Meaning, there are PLENTY of people who are running successful businesses with integrity, excellence and are living above reproach. On paper they are “good people” living a “good life”.

The abundant life offered in Jesus is not just doing the right things that Proverbs guides us in. It’s living in abiding, agape love with Jesus in the every day.

Here’s the deal — God wants to work with you, do the mundane with you, pay your tax bill with you, look over your profit and loss with you, and everything in between.

When we realize it’s less about “how” we’re living and more about “the who” we’re living for – it changes everything!

Here’s my plea to you —> audit your heart and really ask yourself the motivating factors behind the “why” you do what you do.  Make sure that it’s stemming from a heart posture of wanting to walk in abiding love with Jesus.

As I run several companies with millions of dollars a year flowing through our organizations — I have to daily reflect and make sure that my motives are pure. Have I become complacent and settled into the “Good Life” because I’ve followed Proverbs or am I really aiming at the right target — to live in abiding, forever, Kingdom love with the King of Kings?

There once was a world champion archer that was set to take the stage at the Olympics. This person had trained their entire life for this moment and that moment was finally here. He walked up to the podium to aim down the target. He adjusted his fingers and body posture as if it were second nature.

He let go of the bow.

BOOM.

Perfect shot. Right in the middle of the target. It was dead center, bullseye.

Except there was one problem — he had accidentally shot the wrong target. Perfect shot, wrong target.

That’s what I think of when I think about Christian business owners or secular entrepreneurs that live according to Proverbs, do all the right things, make all the right moves, and live the comfortable life.

You are totally missing it if you’re not deeply and intimately walking with Jesus in every aspect of your life.

So make your home in Him. Don’t let another day pass where you’re living the “Good Life” and not living hand in hand with Jesus.