Life changing Profit

If you think this article is about financial profit, let me explain that whilst the world is in a financial recession, it isn't in money that we find the answers or the solutions.

Money comes and goes! Even for those who invest it seemingly "wisely" in the eyes of the world and store up huge bank accounts and investment portfolios in any number of guilts, bonds, securities, trusts and range of financial instruments, it is a passing material wealth. It has high value and as valuable currency is only applicable to life here on earth. The real truth is it is a useless currency and has no value in the Kingdom of heaven.

I worked in the heart of London, in the financial centre of the City - where the heartbeat and pulse of the financial institutions, was its bankers, investment managers and portfolio managers.... and their ability to gamble and make money and more profit and more money and more profit as they played with hedge funds, futures and options..... until one day, it all came crashing down.

The outcry and outcome as thousands of people lost their security blankets reached far and wide and impacted homes across the country and the world; and in a few instances a few even lost their lives, unable to cope with the burden and pressures of their financial losses taking their own lives. How could this be part of God's plans that He has to prosper us and to grow us ? This is not the life changing profit I have dreamt of. Wherever we go, there is always a financial transaction involved but do we want to invest in a financial transaction for profit that leads to a path of destruction, despair, anger and hopelessness?

Where is the "key" then that unlocks this Life changing Profit if it is not in material wealth? Have you ever considered that it is not about your wealth but about the wealth of others around you and what you are doing as your part in building God's Kingdom?

As you deposit of your time and energy, other things can become richer. Examine this in the context of what is in your immediate world and sphere of influence.....a family member or a friend. They may have a desperate need. How aware are you of that need and are you willing to get alongside them? If you give of yourself and give of your time to them, your relationship can have an opportunity to flourish and become richer. You may be making a deposit into their lives at a crucial turning point or a life-changing moment.

God has blessed you and loves you, continually making huge deposits into your life and if you share that blessing or pass it on, you are making a life lasting deposit. Isn't that an investment worth making? Taking your experience and depositing into someone else's life, is what life changing profit is all about.

Our God has invested so much in you and me and His investments never end...... now it's our turn to enable some life changing profit in the lives of those around us as we follow God's will in extending His kingdom and letting Him use us as His instruments for investment.

Selah