In the last year of high school I took part in a selection procedure for a course to become a tax-inspector but just missed that boat! What next?
My father, who for most of his working life was a bookkeeper in a printing company, advised me to apply for a job as assistant-accountant. That was an excellent advice. I was accepted by a well-known Dutch charter accountant company and started my working career as a 17-year-old, just fresh out of high school, but I did like the job immediately.
I received several promotions during my four years as assistant accountant, and would certainly have continued this job if the LORD had not called me to go to Bible College. I even had started studying Accounting, but my involvement in our church as a youth leader was not the right combination time-wise.
During these four years I learned that our heavenly Father is well aware where our earthly pennies are, and that He is an extremely good Accountant.
Just to give a few examples:
One of the companies where I regularly came to check the books had encountered a minor problem. At the end of the year there was a small technical balance deficit that they could not find the reason for. Good counsel is always welcome, certainly if God is the counselor. I prayed about it and promised God that if He would show me the solution that I would testify about it. And so it happened. I found the deficit, and was prompted from “on High” to live up to my promise, and I was able to share the testimony that only after I had prayed for it, God had revealed the answer!
A similar thing happened a while later when I worked with another company. The deficit was much larger and more urgent because the yearly figures needed to be published. I prayed again about this problem, and in His kindness, God used me again to find the problem. That they accepted my testimony that God had helped me is a different story!
I know for sure that the LORD God, our heavenly Father, knows exactly where every penny is, even in the accounting system of a very worldly business!
God is good, always!
Wim van der Zande
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