The Best Place to Invest

While we have places in this life to invest our time and our money, there is something that can offer the greatest and most lasting value for us and the generations to come.

Investing our money can increase our current financial position so that  we have an opportunity to leave money or other material things such as a summer home or a business to our children, or provide a nest egg for retirement and more.  We invest our time into work, relationships, organizations and/or clubs, working out, hobbies and the like.  

While all of these have a level of importance there is nothing more important than investing in our relationship with God.
The one thing that every human being has in common no matter where they invest their time or money is life’s circumstances and situations. At any given point and time each of us may find ourselves experiencing some form of hardship, loss of loved ones, set backs, broken relationships, health issues, financial hardship.  Or even feelings of disappointment, regret, guilt, lack of self confidence, loneliness, grief, heartache, discontent, and more.  

Investing in our relationship with the Lord offers the greatest returns that life has to offer.  For unanswered questions God is a counselor.  For grief and heartache He's a healer.  For setbacks He restorers.  For health challenges He is a healer.

Let’s seek to invest our time fostering our relationship with the Lord. It has much greater values than things on earth.  We will then be able to conquer all things through Christ and no weapon formed against us shall or will prosper in this life.

Suggested Scripture Readings:

Healing

Psalm 103: 2-5 NIV

Praise the Lord, my soul and forget not all his benefits- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Needs

Philippians 4:19 NIV

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

Investing

Psalm 112: 5

Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice. 

Proverbs 11: 24-25  

One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

Courage and Support

1 Chronicles 28:20

Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God is with you.

1 Corinthians 15:18

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Grief, Heartache and Loss

Psalm 147:3 

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Job 12:10

In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.