‘Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop’ 2 Corinthians 9:6

From the plodding wheat fields of Kansas of to the rapid stock exchange of Wall Street, stocks are on the rise.

Farmers and financiers alike, toil tirelessly day and night, growing assets that secure them a future. 

Their efforts, like ours, show the desire all men have to be rich and grow a legacy they can call their own.

Be it a harvest of wheat or of wealth, we are all investing our lives into a ‘stock’ of sorts; trading our time and resources in hopes of yielding generous returns.

Those who are successful understand that ups and downs are par for the course; that patience produces prosperity. 

As one successful investor wisely said, ‘if you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think of owning it for 10 minutes’

This harvest-minded thinking focuses on the bigger picture; the promised future that transcends a multitude of setbacks we face. 

The vision of a bountiful harvest at the end of the season is what keeps a farmer motivated to wake up before dawn and work until dusk.

In the same way, our motivations are kept alive by the harvest we are waking up for everyday; a lifelong labour of love, and at times, loss. 

To give ourselves over to something larger than we can fully comprehend is perhaps the worthiest pursuit a man could take. 

Putting to rest the desires of today in order to raise up the dreams of tomorrow, forms a timeless heirloom that will span many generations to come; all because of our investment each hour of every day.

However Galations 6:7-9 warns each of us to not be ‘misled’ for ‘we will always harvest what we plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.’

Sadly, many on their path to financial freedom will indeed be led astray by their greed, envy and want; expecting satisfying results, but receiving the decay and ultimate ruin of their hearts.

Before we know it, this pursuit of happiness can end up causing great homelessness. 

Much like the gullible gambler who blows his life’s savings and loses everything; the regret also rings true for the man on his death bed who realizes he lost his soul along the way. 

While his investments brought everything this world has to offer, they failed to provide the one thing he now needs in His darkest hour. 

With the clock ticking, it would seem time has run out…

But while there is breath in our lungs, there is breadth in our life.

The passage in Galations concluding with a sure promise; that ‘those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.’ And so, we must not ‘get tired of doing what is good. For at just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.’

Indeed, spiritual investment reaps blessing and life everlasting.

It is the guaranteed stock that will grow ten fold; so long as we remain steadfast and are prepared to go ‘all-in’.

We must commit whatever days or hours we have left to sound spiritual stocks; Knowing full well that true legacy demands sacrifice, and sacrifice demands our all.

So then, may we be…

Risk takers and History makers

Wisdom seekers and Legacy keepers

Investors, Protectors

Of wealth and of blessing

Benefactors, contributors

To inheritance unending