Investing in the Future

Investing Many people actively follow the stock market and analyze the growth or decline in their retirement funds. Unfortunately, we are not always as studious when it comes to understanding the character and growth of our own heart. Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). Jesus fully understood human nature. He did not say that we invest in what we care about. He declared that our heart follows our money! If we dole out substantial amounts of money on material things, those things will consume our affections and attentions. If we buy a stock or a dream home, we will immediately give them our attention and concern.

That was the rich young ruler’s dilemma. He wanted to care about eternal things, but his wealth was committed to temporal concerns. Jesus invited him to become His disciple and to help change the world, but he could not escape money’s grip on his life. Perhaps the reason his story is recounted in three of the four Gospels (Matthew 19:16-22; Mark 10:17-22; Luke 18:18-23) is because so many of us identify with him and his struggle.

Sorry, evangelist, but i am not interested in the future, but only interested in the NOW, because the future does not exist except as thoughts in our heads, and when that socalled future finally does come, it will still be in the NOW.
What man does NOW will take care of his future, because the NOW is the only thing real that we have to interract with and experience.In the NOW, in this very moment we find ourselves, lies the only thing of importance that we will ever have, LIFE, thus GOD.Thinking about the future only takes us away from the now and thus from life, and thus from GOD.

This is perhaps the greatest fallacy of the christian doctrine, constantly focusing people's mind on the past and in the future that are neither real nor do matter, while making sure that people do not focus on the NOW, on the present moment where everything is happening and where it really count.

INVEST IN THE NOW, FOLKS!IT IS THE GREATEST INVESTMENT YOU WILL EVER MAKE IN YOUR LIFE.