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Dear HCF,
Happy Monday! We're cheering you on. Note that we've switched around the Weekly Fellowship Lunches to Mondays so that more second-years can make it (starting next week). Will be a great opportunity to glean their wisdom in these last few months!
Grace and Peace,
Anthony, Jake, and Megan
Weekly Reflection - Ajoy Vase (FTMBA '15)
Last weekend, I, along with 3 other intrepid Haasies, made the trip across country for the Believers in Business conference in New York. It was a truly blessed time, and made me regret that I waited until 2nd year of business school to go. I highly recommend it! The theme of the event was Transformation.
Our speakers were people who have grappled with questions of faith and work over distinguished careers. My personal highlight was the session we spent studying Deuteronomy 8 together. In the passage, Moses is giving his final words of advice to the people of Israel as they are about to finish 40 years of desert wandering and enter into the promised land. A relevant text, given that I'm graduating in a few months.
The future promises greater material abundance and responsibility than I have had before. “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.” (vs 7-9)
I will be tempted to think that “the power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.(v17)” Also, it will be more difficult to remember the Lord that has fed me with manna in times of struggle and has performed miracles to get me to where I am, similar to how he brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. The charge from Moses to remember God in times of abundance is a serious and solemn one, because at the end of the passage, he says “If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.”
Fellow MBAs, my prayer for myself and for us is that we would not fall prey to the idols of money, power and the opinions of others, for these are empty gods that will take us to our destruction. Instead, I hope that we can encourage and challenge one another to remember the Lord’s faithfulness with the same fervor as the times in our lives when we have been completely dependent on him.
Praises and Prayer Requests
PRAISE that God is near to us always and that He is faithful. "What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?" (Deuteronomy 4:7)
PRAYER for greater remembrance of all the things that God has done for us. Prayer that it will lead to greater faith in our present circumstances.
Please submit your own praises and prayer requests to your co-presidents and specify whether we have permission to include them in the newsletter. Even if you don't want them to be public, we would be so delighted to share in your blessings and lift up your burdens.
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 4:19
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