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Originally Posted by Toad
As a result, I'm considering a career on Wall Street.
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Well, you are a brave soul, apparently willing to directly confront the Gates of Hell. Do you see your financial success coming from ingenuity, luck, or prayer?
Your intentions are admirable, but the circumstances you'd enter into could certainly jeopardize your spiritual values. Matt 6:21 warns, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Much as I've tried to come up with good counsel from the scriptures to go forth and seek your fortune, I come up empty. Biblical advice seems to be about person to person involvement, such as the good Samaritan, looking after the widows and elderly, giving to the poor, caring for the sick, visiting those in prison, etc. To my mind it also indicates that performing locally is better than going globally. Person to person involvement. Where you can manage what you are giving, and see what you are accomplishing, should give one much better control over results.
You might make your commitment to a non-profit charitable organization, specifically concentrating on grant-writing, to gather generous funding from all the fat-cats and their organizations who are the darlings of Wall Street. Now that's a challenge.
Pardon me if what I've said sounds cynical; it's just that when money becomes the driving force in our lives we expose ourselves to disaster. I hope you will find answers to your concerns by prayer, meditation and deep consideration of the words given by our Lord, Jesus Christ. You won't go wrong there.