DIVERSIFY?!?!

     When we first arrived in Brazil in 1991, the inflation rate was over 35% a month. It made no sense to save you money since it was worth less and less each day. People would spend as quickly as possible investing in anything that would possibly hold it’s value. The banks were still necessary so folks would diversify their deposits  for security. If one bank failed they would have money in another bank. Many had multiple accounts in Bradesco, Banco do Brasil, Itau, Caixa Economica, Etc. Smart, right? Diversify your investments.

       In the area of religion, many do the same think. They “deposit” a little of their faith in the “Bank of Mother Mary”, the “Bank of Good Works”, The “Bank of Multiple Religions”, the “Bank of Self-Improvement”.

      When they hear about Jesus, here is what often happens. They think, sure, why not add Jesus Christ to the group. So in “accepting Christ”, they place Him on the shelf with “Mother Mary”, “Good Works”, and “all the other things they hope will work”. Diversify.  Cover all your bases.

      However, by the very fact that they are depositing in multiple “Banks”, basically they are saying, I really do not trust any of you guys. If I really trusted your “Bank” I would deposit all of my money (Faith) there. They are really not trusting any of the Banks. That is not “trusting”, that is gambling. They are just hoping that al least one of these will work.

    To trust Jesus Christ as your Savior means to “withdraw” all of your faith from the bank of “Mother Mary”, the “Bank of Good Works”, the “Bank of Good Intentions”, or any other “Bank” and deposit all of your faith in Jesus Christ. Anything less than that is a sham, a farce, and that kind of “faith” can’t and won’t save anyone.

John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”