Some Serious Investment Tips

One of my favourite icons died a few days ago.  Jack Lalanne, the exercise and fitness guru known for his many feats of strength, health and endurance, passed on at age 96.  "96!" you say; that's a long time.  No, given how much Jack lived and ate healthy, I was hoping he'd at least get past the 36,525 day mark. 100 years is only 36,525 days after all.  
Having said that, if you ate only the stuff he did, it will have felt even longer though : ) !


Moving on, let's take a step back and look at a "typical" human life:

Assuming a life span of 80 years (Jack did do a lot of exercise and eat no junk unlike most of us!), then everything we do in our lives take place in these 29200 or so days.  All we studied for, whom we courted, what we aspired and worked hard for, the kids we raised, the money we saved, the things we felt were so important.  All in a little line here.


Pretty dismal, isn't it?  No wonder Paul said:
1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. (NKJV)


Said like a true believer, Mr. Paul.  Thank God we have a hope, as Paul continues:
1 Corinthians 15: 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. (NKJV)(I must clarify that the "all" refers to believers of Christ.)

Sometimes, eternity is pretty hard to grasp, like in school when they told you about the number infinity.  Let's try to grasp that one step at a time.

If we were made alive for only one more lifetime with God, this is how everything we live for today looks like - all the hopes, triumphs, disappointments; every good thing and bad that took place in our lives:

OK - so let's try 3 extra lifetimes.  Now look at all that we seek for, yearn for, strife for:

We'll move to 7.  Can you still see the events in your life?

Here's 15:

You see where we're going with this.  For the record, here's 100 lifetimes.

And we have an eternity to enjoy in Heaven with God and the rest of the believers.  Remember also that what happens in that little smudge on the left affects everything on the right.  


Jesus did say:
Matthew 6: 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (NKJV)

Kind of wants to make you do that now, doesn't it?  In investment language, we all have a very, very small window of opportunity to invest.

Where is our treasure today?  What are we investing our short lives in?  If we treasure the things of above, our heart will follow.

We can lay up treasures and we'll explore this whole realm of rewards in the coming days.

God bless you with this!