Word for the day "Return on Investment (ROI)"
Philippians 2:4 (KJV) “Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others”.
It can be rewarding to invest in the lives of others.
It’s rewarding to get a good return on an investment. In business, we invest money, time, and people resources into promoting a product and service in hopes of a return.
We make financial investments in hopes we can gain a return on our money invested. The apostle Paul understood another kind of investment. It was an investment in the spiritual lives of people.
He invested his life in today’s message a man named Epaphras, who was a man deeply impacted by Paul’s investment in him.
Paul refers to Epaphras when writing to the Colossians: “You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit” (Col 1:7-8).
It can be rewarding to invest in other people’s lives.
Be careful to not underestimate the investment in others principle.
The older I get the more I’m looking for investments that last. And the only investment I know of that lasts are the investments we make in others.
If you want this chapter of your life to be the best, you must begin investing in the lives of other people. Help someone. Pour your life into their life.
One day I received this note from a spiritual daughter into whom I had made an investment: “I wanted to take the time to thank you for your help, time, support, prayers, and encouragement while completing my work rotation. Blessings to you and your family”.
Sometimes we don’t realize the difference we can make in another life. For us, it can seem a natural way of operating.
We may not even think we are doing anything unusual. Until one day, you receive a note like this one.
In the marketplace, we can often get very focused on the projects we are called to promote and gain a return on. However, we each need to be making an investment in other people as well.
Point to ponder
When you pour yourself into a younger life the investment continues to yield a return. And when the person you’ve helped helps someone else the principle continues.Are you investing in lives that may be in your sphere of influence through your workplace call?The returns on this investment are beyond measure. Investing in others is the investment which keeps on paying dividends long after you are gone.
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