God's Business Man

 The following thought-provoking words are  from Harry Foster's book Thy Kingdom Come (Foster was a co-worker with T. Austin-Sparks):

"For the Lord is at work all the time--planning, refining, shaping, fitting together--all with a view to our eternal vocation of reigning with Christ.  He is working on us, working with us, to make us into a heavenly people.

"Daniel's story [in the book of Daniel in the Bible] makes it very clear that this shaping [of us] is done mainly in the daily test of ordinary life.  He was no cloistered visionary--though he jealously set aside time for the secret place [with God]--but he was a man who had to earn his living among men of the world:  a business man, and a conscientious and efficient business man at that."