Mar
8
Don’t Break the Chain
Filed Under Devotional
There is a classic scam known as a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme. The idea is that you start with a small group of people telling them they’ll reap impressive returns with a modest investment. You pay the returns with the investments of other people. Since you’re paying out more than you were given, paying off each investor means enrolling a few more. Eventually, the scheme collapses under the unmanageable size. It falls apart because you can’t grow the pyramid forever.
Now, imagine you could grow it forever. Imagine finding an endless source of income. I know of such a source, but it doesn’t supply money. God supplies grace and mercy and compassion.
“Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Not only is He the perfect source of comfort and compassion, but when He gives it to us, we can turn around and give it to someone else. If we all are doing just that, there will be those who don’t know Jesus who will be overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and compassion from the believers around him. Come to think of it, I believe that’s sort of the point.
This is a pyramid scheme that works. Don’t break the chain!