Marketplace medicine

John 2:16. Stop turning my fathers house into a marketplace. 

Many institutions initiated in holiness have mutated into marketplaces. The insidious creep of commercialism has overgrown their original intentions and now they are a masquerade. Hospitals, schools, orphanages, old age homes, day care centres, monasteries, hostels for women, colleges, the list is endless. Famous names and places now are enrolled, each having an inception in idealism, but they have been transformed gradually into temples to mammon. How did this happen? How can any institution guard itself from the virus?

It is always good to lack something, to want for something, not to have all that is needed. This keeps our eyes on Jehovah Jireh. 

He then remains as the focus, and not the collation of works that becomes an institution. 

The aim then is not that the institution survives, or prospers, but that His will is done. 

All profit is not profitable in His book. 

There always is another way in His mind. 

There is never any desperation on His boat. 

A door shut means a door will open on His watch

Everything that is good may not be beneficial. 

All profit comes from Him and should be returned to Him. 

From Him comes the yield of field and fruit tree

From Him comes the ability to make wealth

Wealth is a currency of His kingdom when used for His purposes and leads to life. 

Wealth is the only currency of the world which leads to death

Expand in His purposes, and in His time. 

Don’t expand because it is the “sensible” thing to do, or the need of the hour, or the means of “survival”, or the way to cover overheads. 

Wait on the Lord.