Blind Entrepreneur

By: Yedija Prima

In recent days, there are some entrepreneurs who has run their business like blind men. Economic & financial crisis that is still going on has made their wits' end. Their creativity dead end, so, they have to grope in the darkness when maintaining and developing their businesses. The difficulties that arise because of the economic & financial crisis even has paralyzed some entrepreneurs who seems great. Because the solutions that seem too good to be done, failed to deliver victory.

One day, there was a businessman who did business manufer. He sold most of its business assets, in order to get capital to infested on a new business. But the result, new businesses fail in the first days runs. The situation becomes worse, when the entrepreneur tries to sell assets of its new business everywhere, but failed, as a result, these assets become 'dead' assets. There is an undeniable fact that in these days, 'blindness creativity' has 'plagued' many entrepreneurs. Economic & financial crisis has reached the level that it is impossible to deal with. However you know, there are other facts that say, God provided miracles, deliverance and victory for the entrepreneurs! But unfortunately, not many entrepreneurs who see the facts. Apparently their blindness not only creativity blindness, but also spiritual blindness. Spiritual blindness is the blindness which worse than creativity blindness. If an entrepreneur does not recover from spiritual blindness, so he will not recover from creativity blindness too.

One time, the kingdom of Israel was surrounded by the kingdom of Syria (2 Kings 6:11-14). Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, failed to see that God has provided help. He prefers to see the magnitude of the problem (of troops) that surrounded the kingdom of Israel (2 Kings 6:15). But once his mind's eye opened by God, he could see the army of heaven that has been prepared to protect and defend the kingdom of Israel.

2 Kings 6:17, "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."

In the present or future situation there is no other option for the Christian entrepreneur except to have spiritual eyes that can see clearly. And it could happen if they truly seek God and rely on Him. I (the author) has been met with the entrepreneurs who have sought God earnestly & they are experiencing tremendous victory. However, nothing is impossible for God.