Good morning!

In 1974, my dad opened savings accounts for my older brother and me. Every now and then, he would deposit money into our accounts and encourage us to do the same with money we earned from chores.

My brother and I were always excited to get our monthly bank statements and see how much our bank accounts had grown. It wasn’t a ton of money, but since we really had no clue as to what things cost, seeing the amount of dollars we had at our disposal as a young child made us feel we were rich!

Another key rule dad taught us was to never expect to be able to take out more money than we had put in. So as long as we put money in, we could expect to be able to take money out!

Forty-nine years and probably 500 + bank statements later, that same no deposit, no return rule still applies.

In Matthew 19-21, the rules of investing apply not only to the financial realm but the spiritual realm as well.

Jesus commands us to not be deceived into spending too much of our life depositing our time and efforts into temporary matters that slowly steal our attention away from making adequate spiritual deposits toward eternity. An eternity where we will all have to stand before an Eternal God who’ll be looking to see if Christ is richly deposited within our hearts!

Acts 16-31 – And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Let us strive to remember that having emergency funds on deposit for emergencies is wise and important. But, having Christ as our spiritual deposit, will be far more beneficial to us than any available finances when we reach the end of our life!

Praying that you make work to be sure you and your loved one’s are spiritually vested in Christ!