Dear Lord,
As we come to You to honor vocations as a way we serve You in the world, we are thankful for all those involved in bringing structure out of the chaos around money - around assets and liabilities, around investing and borrowing, around valuing and extracting, around managing cash, around counting, measuring and profiting.
Lord, may we remember that a man can only serve one master. Finance, more than any other vocation, evokes feelings of confusion to some Christians. Finance very much reveals elements of God’s character around order and structure. Like God, healthy finance can allocate needed resources across time, and across heterogeneous groups of people. Like God, finance depends on promises. Like God’s creation mandate, finance increases human productivity from sharing resources socially for mutual benefit.
But like all systems and industries, the fall and our sin has impacted finance. Finance can be associated with greed and extortion. It can be manipulative and opaque. It can serve the rich and leave the poor behind. It can seem the source of all power. But we know, Lord, that You can and do and will redeem all things in Your creation. May those of us who work in finance see clearly the role we can play in the redemption of the finance industry.
Lord, we pray for each and every person working in this very important function of our economy. Whether they are running the spreadsheets, assessing the credit, selling the services, or orchestrating the deals, may their work reflect Your beauty, truth, and goodness. May they know that their work matters. How could companies run, employees get paid, houses and companies be bought and sold without the order of finance?
Lord we ask Your blessing on each and every worker in finance. We pray that Your Spirit allows them to be present to the role You would have them play as they point to You in the way they love people, places and things to life.
As we your people go to work even this week, we pray that the outworking of the gospel be always evident in our work, that our service as a worker might be ever reckoned and received as service first rendered unto You, O Christ.
And we ask all this in the name of your Son,
Amen.
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