Return on Investment

I am not some great financial guru who knows what to invest your money in.  I am not the person to come to if you want to know what stock to put your money into that will give you some great return on your investment.  I have a 401K that I don't even manage myself because I would know what to put my money into.

A few years ago I worked for a bank in the corporate trust department.  We dealt with one stock.  The people who had invested in this stock were having a return of 80,000 dollars every three months.  Boy, did I want to invest in that.

Paul uses this same analogy to explain the benefits of living for Jesus.

Rom 6:20 — Rom 6:23
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death.
But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.
For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

Paul makes mention that there is not much benefit in serving sin and our fleshly lusts.  He makes the point that the only benefit we receive from serving sin is shame and guilt and death.

The benefit of serving Christ is peace, joy and love and eternal life.  Yes, we still have to deal with the temptation to going back to our flesh, but the benefits of serving Jesus is out of this world. 

Just like investments in this world, you do not get the return on your investments right away.  You have to wait for them to grow and then after a few months or many years, you can turn in your stock or bond for the financial gain.

Every time we turn from sin and turn to God we are banking on Jesus and one day He is going to turn in his investment and take us home to be with Him for eternity.  He already paid the price for us.

Thank you Lord that our return on investment with you gives us even life.  You bought our investment for us on Calvary and I just want to say thank you.  Help me to day to not try to turn in my investment for a cheaper investment of sin that has no return.  Help me to keep my eye on the maturity date of my investment.  Heaven is my final reward.