“What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen.”

Last week we read of a little company called, “OMGPop” that had developed and launched an iphone app called, “Draw Something”. Within weeks of launch the app had been downloaded over 30 million times and everywhere you turned someone was talking about the game. Within the same weeks the game big company Zynga swooped in and drew up their offer for OMGPop and days/hours later the deal had closed at a purportedly $180 million dollar sum. If that doesn’t feel like 1999 all over again, nothing does. Later we learned that at the time, OMGPop was on their last dollars and if that Draw Something had not become a hit that the company was headed for the dead pool. Out of nowhere and into the jet stream in a flash. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it gives MBA classes and young entrepreneurs a new story to tell and a new motivation. The problem with the story line is that OMGPop is one of a thousand, but that’s okay. What we need to see is the possibility, the dreams and the conquests to be made. These are what keep the entrepreneurial flames burning.

For those of us who are in this world, but strive hard to not be of it, moments like OMGPop’s can be hard to reconcile. We may think that because we are living our lives in accordance to God’s desire for us that we should be given and have our OMGPop reward in our own work. That is not what God says to us. What we are told and know that is if we walk in the will of the Lord that by our faith, that those things that we hope for we can with “confident assurance” knowing will happen. But what we don’t know, nor can we learn somehow, is what is truly in God’s will for us. That is where we are to put our faith and our hope; in the lap of God so that His will will come to fruition for us. What we hope for in the future can only be fulfilled with our faith now and ongoing, but let’s put those hopes and faith where they can be of most use; for what God can do for us in His Kingdom.

Reference: Hebrews 11:1 (New Living Testament)