Selling Insurance...For God

Devotional

"Don't just do the minimum that will get you by.  Do your best.  Work from your heart for your real Master, for God, confident that you'll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance.  Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you're serving is Christ.  The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible.  Being a follower of Jesus doesn't cover up bad work."  (Colossians 2:23-25, Message)

"Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31, NIV)

God cares what we do every day.  God cares about how we do it.  He put us here to do meaningful work, to take care of things, to make things better (Genesis 2:15).  We have the opportunity to do meaningful work when we meet a new person and start a relationship with them, when we ask someone if we can quote their insurance and then quote it correctly and honestly, when we save people some money, when we make sure our files are complete and accurate.  Somehow we've bought into the idea that there are spiritual things we do for God and non-spiritual things we do for ourselves.  But in the scripture, everything is spiritual.  Jesus did his first miracle at a party--creating wine no less!  He fixed people's real life problems and taught them how to live day by day.  He lived in the real world with real people.  And He spent a lot more of his adult life in a normal career than He did in full-time ministry.

So this month, don't do the minimum.  Let's not just scrape by, surviving the hard things in life.  Celebrate your opportunity to bring glory to God by being a good husband or wife, by paying attention to your kids, by being diligent at work.  If everything is spiritual, then everything matters.  What we do matters and how we do it matters.  It matters to God because we matter to Him and this world matters to Him.  He cares.

Whether you are stamping postcards or filling out a quote on EZLynx or talking to a new acquaintance about insurance or helping out a fellow agent, do it for God.  And give it your all--because He cares about it.

Scorecard Update

We hit approximately 56% of goal again this month.  What's going on?!  I encourage you to make it your personal goal to see that May is a breakthrough month.  If we all produce, we can blow 56% out of the water!  Here's the summary of April's scores:

April (out of 15)
Heath  11
Torrie  8.5  (Great first month!)
Jared  7.5
Jerry/Chase  7
Mike  6.5
EJ  6.5
David  5
Dana  3
Lyndal  0
Steve  0
James  0