Is Love An Investment?

Is Love An Investment? Should you expect to profit from the love you give?

Can love be wasted? Is there a point where you should just quit spending your love on someone who doesn’t show the slightest bit of love in return?

If you saw love as an investment, you would definitely give up. Cut your losses. Invest your love somewhere else, where you’ll get a better return.

But listen to this, from the apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12:15. “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”

This is from a man, a human like you and me… loving like Jesus loved. Spend and be spent for you?… Gladly! Even VERY gladly! When the more I love you, the less you love me? ABSOLUTELY!

Maybe some would even spend for someone who doesn’t appreciate it… but ‘BE SPENT’??? What do have left for yourself, or of yourself, after you have ‘been spent’?

Yes, love can bring phenomenal returns. But it’s not to be thought of as an investment. Jesus didn’t just ‘invest’ in us. He GAVE HIMSELF for us! (Check out Galatians 1:4; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:25; Titus 2:14)

‘Give yourself’… ‘be spent’… What does that really mean? In my mind, I can kind of picture it. But in my heart, I feel like I don’t have a clue! …Yet.

Even as I write this, my heart is stirred with mixed feelings of excitement and apprehension, faith and fear. But love triumphs! The flesh won’t like this, but some of us are going to experience what it’s like to give until we have absolutely nothing left to give. Nothing held in reserve. Totally SPENT! Only a conduit… a vessel… of God’s glory! That’s the steps of Jesus.

Where You lead me, Lord, I’ll follow.