«For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also»
(Matthew 6:21)
Imagine you have enough resources to live and realize that, with a little organization and business savvy, you could make an investment that will bring you profit over time. Your mission is to find that business or activity that could provide you future benefits. But you don’t have enough business experience so you start asking advice to avoid wasting your assets. Who would you consult? Would you ask your family or friends for advice? Would you seek financial counsel?
In an article entitled «Aspects of Investor Psychology,» psychologist Daniel Kahneman and the financial researcher Mark W. Riepe identify some crucial aspects when it comes to making an investment. Firstly, they indicate that the majority of investors do not exactly know their own interests and true wishes. Secondly, there are many relevant facts in a transaction that are ignored, thus it is not possible to be absolutely certain that an investment will be successful. Lastly, the ability to accept advice in this field and bearing the consequences of decisions made is quite limited.
In other words, if you want to make a good investment, you have to know your true interests, which depend upon your values. Do you know yourself well enough to understand what is most important to you? Do you channel your investments by taking into account your priorities in life? And knowing that there exist certain hidden aspects in every transaction, whose advice do you seek?
Understanding that the ability to accept advice in the field of investments is limited and that the consequences of the decisions made will be felt by the investor and his or her family, we will limit ourselves today to share a piece of advice from the Scriptures.
Christ shows us how to obtain true riches. He said, «Sell what you have and give alms» (Luke 12:33) and seek treasures in heaven. By investing their means in the cause of God to aid in the salvation of souls and helping the needy, they become rich in good works, and «are laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life» (1 Tim. 6:19). «God expects more of you than you have been willing to do. There is work to be done now to make ready a people to stand in the day of the Lord. Means must be invested in the work of saving men, who, in turn, shall work for other.» (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, ch. 88, p. 734).
May God help us to make the best investment for the Bible says, «For where [our] treasure is, there our] heart will be also.»
Taken from: Daily Devotions for Adults 2020
“A Cheerful Heart Is Good Medicine”
From: Julian Melgoza-Laura Fidanza
Colaboradores: Yidith C & Alejandra Zavala