Invest in the future (but don't turn yourself into a stock market). Stock markets are the pest guess in the present about the future. When God invests in the future it is a different beast. Jeremiah buys a field. It is taken as a sign of hope. Everything is collapsing around him: the Babylonians have taken over the asylum and shares have plummeted.
The perfect time for investment. Obviously. Not because you can buy cheap now and sell for a huge profit in the future. God's investment in the future is about seeing opportunity to change things now. It's a time of creativity, of renewal, of resurrection. Take the church at the moment coming to the dreaded 2033 when there will be no one left. That's one way of looking at it. Alternatively it is about investing now in creativity, dreaming big with this opportunity to let the faith community become something else. Indeed it is the whole community because buying a field has a sense of being for the whole community rather than an individual. It's a perfect gift to the community because his community is about resurrection. The field is a base line, a canvas, a blank sheet of paper. What shall we do with it?
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