Did I get your attention with that title? Sorry… I can’t help you with your 401(k). When I talk about investing these days, I am referring to a project we started a few weeks ago at The Summit. Check it out on my November 4 blog by searching for “The Futures Market” on this site.

We’re starting to get some great stories back. I will put some of them on a future blog. For now, I am excited about a lesson that God is teaching me through this. Several families have said that they are having a hard time narrowing down the one ‘big’ thing God wants then to do with His $50. I am in the same boat. My family has talked about some good ideas. We have a few things we are going to do this weekend in our neighborhood. We really want to bless our new neighbors. It’s going to be fun and I can’t wait to get the opportunity to turn their thanksgiving toward God. The cool thing is, it won’t cost $50. I was feeling a little weird about that. I still have God’s money in a drawer in my kitchen.

That’s when it struck me. I have God’s money in my wallet (not much of it… I can’t be trusted with cash). I have God’s skills and talents in my posession everyday. It took this $50 bill to teach me this. It has caused me to search and identify opportunities to serve others in the Name of Jesus. I have been looking for ‘The Big One,’ the opportunity to serve that will make everyone take notice of The One True God. Oh yeah, and it has to cost $50. That’s crazy. I need to treat every opportunity like it is ‘the one.’ My tiny efforts become ‘the one’ when God adds His power to it.

I’m tempted to take God’s $50 bill and frame it and hang it on my wall as a reminder to search out the opportunities that God gives me everyday. See, I told you I can’t be trusted with cash.