Who has invested in you? It may be a family member, a special teacher, an employer, or so many others in your life. Sometimes people invest and are around only for a season, but their investment has a return that lasts our whole lifetime. Others continuously pour into us and are there until we breathe our last breath.
Anytime you invest something, time, money, or material goods you take the risk to do so because you believe something even greater will come from what you put into it. Sometimes the money we invest increases and sometimes we lose some of it. The time you invest in people is to help them, but sometimes it backfires and leaves you wondering why you even took the time.
When you invest, you’re saying the possible benefits outweigh the risks. In the Bible, it talks about everything you have is God’s—even your money. So giving ten percent of what you have back to God seems menial when you consider that it’s all His. Everything worth something usually costs something. The Church cannot help people and reach people for Christ if they do not have the means to do so.
God created you and me and entrusted His likeness and image to us. He invested in you because He believed the return on His investment would be greater than the risk of investing Himself into you. God believes in you. He knows what you’re capable of and the impact you can make for the kingdom on this earth.
You have freewill to make your own decisions, but the investment He has made within you is waiting to be used for His glory. How are you using what He has invested in you to continue to grow by investing in someone else?
