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
