A lot of businesses go on day by day; a lot of business transactions occur every hour, people sell things and provide services they have to meet their own needs. Many obtained loans to finance and support their businesses. Many businesses today are sustained as a result of grants. Many travel round the globe in the name of business activities.

Many do not have time for their family so as to have time for their businesses. The business of many is their power line, when their business is taken away from them; they are as good as dead. Many have committed suicide when they see it’s obvious that they may not be able to repay the loans they used to finance their businesses.

Many are doing best in their businesses and getting positive results while many are doing worse. The worst businessman is:
  • not the man who cannot manage his business to survive
  • not the man that is ignorant about the nature of business he is doing
  • not the man who used his capital to finance useless parties
  • not the man who do not have good and accurate plans before starting his business
  • not the man who is ignorant about his customer’s need.
  • not the man who could not learn from his failure
  • not the man who established his business at a poor location
  • not the man who lack goal and focus of his business
  • not the man who use business funds for personal use.
  • not the man who do not have a succession plan for his business.
  • not the man who is not accountable to his business
  • not the man who expects failure in his business nor know how to deal with the unexpected.
  • not the man who closed up due to giving too much credit to customers.


Who then is the worst businessman?

The worst businessman is the person who came to this world, had barely everything but never planned for the world after.

“What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?  What could you ever trade your soul for?” Mark 8:36-37 (MSG-NT)

  • The worst businessman is the man who knows God to be the source of his prosperity but do not care about doing what God wants. "Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter God's kingdom. The only people who will enter are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.” Matthew 7:21 (ETRV)
  • It is the man who fails to repent of his sins while on earth.
  • It is the man who refused to yield to the call of heaven
  • It is the man like Jonah who was sent to Nineveh but set on journey for Tarshish
  • It is the man who uses his spiritual gifts for personal gains.

These kinds of people will see themselves as worst businessmen on the last day. It is on the day of judgment that many will see that all their toil on earth was just a waste of time.

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Have a deep think of your activities, if you were to be repaid for your wickedness, what will happen to you? If you were to get the reward of unforgiveness, will you expect God to forgive you to enter into paradise? If you were to get your reward for unfaithfulness in marriage, tithe, service unto God and walk with God, what will be your gain at the end of the day?

In all your steps in life, think about the end result of everything. Think about the judgment you stand to receive should God say it is over for you.

Many people spend all their energy seeking pleasure. Jesus said, however, that worldliness, which is centered on possessions, position, or power, is ultimately worthless. Whatever you have on earth is only temporary; it cannot be exchanged for your soul. If you work hard at getting what you want, you might eventually have a "pleasurable" life, but in the end you will find it hollow and empty. 

Are you willing to make the pursuit of God more important than the selfish pursuits? Make a U-turn on your ways and follow Jesus, and you will know what it means to live abundantly now and to have eternal life as well.