Investments

If I spend one hour a week with a seven year old child, teaching him or her about Jesus Christ and how to live for him and I get one year to do that and then move away, I believe my life will have been credited in Heaven. How much? I don’t know. But I will be rewarded for investing in a child’s life. A person who shares or breathes into another person’s life will get credit for that in Heaven.  Agree with me? Or disagree with me? I will assume you basically agree with me.

If I share in a ministry with others, we all get credited for the time we invested in those people’s lives we’ve been given responsibility for.  If any of us move and those people continue to grow in their relationships, more credit is given to us. I think in this world today we call it paying it forward.  I agree and I think in the Christian realm it has to do with making eternal investments. My third grade teacher invested five days a week in teaching me the things I needed to know so that I would be prepared for the fourth grade.

When I teach seven year olds at my church about Jesus and what’s in the Bible, I am preparing them not only for living their live here on earth but for making it into eternity. An eternity I hope is in Heaven. 

Though we will never know until we get to Heaven, the impact we have made on a person, its great to know that every day that person or person’s growth puts more credit in our eternal investment compartment. Wherever that may be. I am not thinking about how much I get in Heaven, rather, that my investment time was definitely worth it and definitely worth something.

Thinking about this today came from getting information that a place I used to minister at was growing in a new phase. My investment in that place just grew as they grew.  And the cool thing for me, is that no one can take that away from me. God likes addition and He loves to add to what we have invested in.

If you’ve ever invested in person and saw them grow you probably know what I am talking about. If you don’t think your time with someone or a group of people is worth it, rethink it, because it is worth it. 

So, on to more investments.