Seeing Investing Through God’s Eyes with Jason Myhre | FaithFi
September 17, 2021
Seeing Investing Through God’s Eyes with Jason Myhre
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Isaiah 55 proclaims, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.” With our finite minds, we can never fully understand God’s but we can gain some understanding of His view of things like investing.
Isaiah 55 proclaims, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.” With our finite minds, we can never fully understand God’s. But can we gain some understanding of His view of things like investing? We’ll talk about that with Jason Myhre, on this Moneywise. Jason Myhre is with Eventide, an underwriter of this program. He’s a founding member of Eventide and spends a great deal of time encouraging folks like us to be a part of God’s plan with our investments.
How can we see investing as a part of God’s plan? Our task as believers is to see all of life through God’s eyes, including investing. Unless we see the whole world the way God sees the world, every decision we make will be flawed.
The book of Genesis provides us with a vision for business and investing today. In Genesis 2:15, God gives humanity the gift of work. God’s plan from the very beginning was for humanity to participate in his work of creation.
All our labors are meant to add up to this: to develop and cherish God’s good creation in ways that meet human needs and bring glory and honor to him.
Both business and investing are meant by God to provide for the needs of the world and to bring glory and honor to him. Humanity, through business, is meant to “image” God’s attribute of provision for the world by creating the goods and services that the world needs to flourish. That’s its true calling. Profit is necessary, but secondary.
Humanity through investing is meant to resource business with the capital it needs to accomplish the work of provision for the world. Investing’s financial returns are good, but again they are secondary.
However, sin means that not every investing decision can be made. There are, sadly, many investing decisions where we should say no. The fall means that humanity can now use our God-given creativity in business to create things that harm our neighbor and bring dishonor to God.
Great care must be taken with each investing decision. We need always to be asking, is this investing decision going to enhance the beauty and provision of the garden God made or is this investing decision going to diminish it?
The value of faith-based investing is that it offers us a way to intentionally invest in companies whose products and practices are enlarging the beauty and provision of God’s good creation.
On this program we also answer your questions:
I want a new car with upgraded features. My car dealership is encouraging me to roll the remaining balance of my current vehicle—almost paid for—into a new, current-model one. What are your thoughts on doing this?
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