Where Do You Invest? Where is Your Deposit?

Do we not long for personal healthy finances?

I am not talking about the greed of wanting millions of pounds or dollars in the bank.

I mean just that we have enough money to pay our way and maybe just that little bit in case of that “emergency” that comes along.

That time when you just need to reach into your residue of funds and make a withdrawal to help you out of that emergency.

Do we apply good stewardship over our finances?

Do we learn to work to a personal or family budget so we have enough to see us through each week or each month?

We live in financially turbulent times.

Many people have lived outside of that good “stewardship”.

Many have used finance that they had not “earned” by taking on credit, by taking on a debt that so often we cannot pay back.

Too many so often live for the “now” for the “immediate” and do not make any investment at all, no matter how small into our future

A good steward, a wise man, would make financial plans for the future.

A good steward will consider that the “emergency” may come and plan to prepare for such a circumstance and put aside some savings, or invest in a pension.

A good steward will use what they have earned not what they may earn or hope to earn in the future.

A good steward will be making deposits in their “savings” account.

Well how is it with the Kingdom of God?

Are we making deposits in the Kingdom of God?

When we want to make a withdrawal is there something there to draw on?

Are we tithing my time and making my investments count?

Are we investing in the future and planning for those “emergencies”?

Are we creating a “savings” account that we can draw upon when we need to?

I am not referring to money in this instance. Of course good financial stewardship and financially investing in the Kingdoms work on Earth is quite right. But money is not the investment I am writing about.

How much time do we invest in the scriptures?

When we want to recall something from the Bible have we made Kingdom deposits so that when we call upon scripture there is a deposit there that we can withdraw from?

Are we tithing our time so we spend that time growing deeper into His word?

When that “emergency”  happens, when you are called upon to recall something from scripture have you spent the time investing and building the storehouse so that when we call upon it there is something for you to grab hold of?

Just as we need to, and in most cases really want to, be careful with the finances we have and make good solid decisions in what we use those monies for, so should we also be careful in what we do with the far more precious gift of the Holy Bible. 

We need to invest our time each and every day building a surplus of understanding and familiarity and when we need to call upon it we can be confident that there is a suitable deposit stored up for us that we can know it is there when we need it.

Invest wisely. 

Invest in God. 

Invest in the Word. 

And build up an investment that, unlike our money, is guaranteed to be safe and secure for today and all time.

God Bless