God of Excel Spreadsheets

Ezra 8

Many of us live our lives with a firm division between the sacred and the secular, the spiritual and the mundane, the heavenly and the earthly. Our passage today will challenge that division. Because while it may sound boring on the surface (It reads with all the poetic beauty of an Excel spreadsheet!), it contains a weighty truth for the way we compartmentalize our lives. God doesn’t just need preachers and musicians; God needs bean-counters, administrators, and faithful delegators to lead people out of exile.