– Giving something you have with the hope of getting something more valuable back –
You have the ability to invest your time, money, energy, and emotions. Investing is choosing to use something you have in order to develop something more valuable. Investing can be a good thing because if you choose good, wise things to invest in you will have more valuable things develop from your choices. But if you invest in foolish things or if you waste what you have, then you don’t get more important things as a result.
But what is really valuable? What should you invest in and hope to get back? Investing money can help you have more money for the future. But the best type of investment is giving your time and your life to what really matters. When you give your life to God and let God use you to help others know Him, you are investing in lives that will forever be with God in heaven. What you invest in and how you spend your life will make a difference in what you experience in the future. Investing doesn’t just happen – you have to choose to invest in what is important.
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” – Luke 16:10 (NIV)
Questions
- What are some things other than money that you can use to invest?
- What is something you have invested in?
- Did you see anything more valuable come from your investment? Was it worth it?
- What are some valuable things you would like to see in your life?
- What do you want to grow and develop in your lifetime?
- What can you do to invest in these things?