Entrepreneurs of the Soul – Sunday, July 14, 1985
There are some in the world today who think of our economic age as the “Age of Entrepreneurs.” It is a time to take a chance on a dream, to try something different, to have faith in the future. The entrepreneurial spirit is one of courage, independence, and risk-taking. Those who have it are the ambitious people who fire the furnace of economic development, who are unafraid to extend themselves into unknown. They are the ones who are credited with creating a business atmosphere of opportunity and growth.
But such courage, vision, and daring should not be limited only to the world of business.
If the marketplace has need of economic entrepreneurs, perhaps our world also needs entrepreneurs of the soul—men and women who are not timid in committing themselves to virtue, who are prepared to take whatever risks are required to have moral courage, who are willing to walk away from the crowd, to know and obey the will of God.
We have been told: “Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened.”1
But still we hesitate. Perhaps its because doubting is easier. To doubt requires no commitment, no creative energy, no moral entrepreneurship. As a result, there are many doubters who dismiss a faith in God as simply something that can’t be known, can’t be done, and therefore, of little value.
It’s what those who lack vision always have said of visionaries; what the timid always have said of the bold; what the doubters always have said of the faithful. But there is no victory in doubt—no adventure, no dreams, no hopes, no knowledge of God and His truth. Those are the challenges and rewards to be discovered by entrepreneurs of the soul—they who see beyond the doubt of others.
Like an entrepreneur’s dream, the reward of truth and understanding—indeed, the knowledge of God and the joy it brings—can be ours only if we take the risk and make the effort to reach beyond our doubt.
1 New Testament, Matthew 7:7
July 14, 1985
Broadcast Number 2,914