In retirement planning, excess cash in the bank is a wasted investment. It simply sits there, useless, losing value with each passing day. It needs to be invested in a money-making fund.
Yet many of us feel nervous at letting go of our cushion of cash. We are afraid of running short at the end of the month.
One solution? We keep our cushion of cash, and on a regular basis, we pull down the wealth.
The idea is simple. Let excess money pile up in our checking accounts for several months, and when we feel we have a sufficient cushion, we take the excess money and add it to our long-term investments. We “pull down the wealth,” and we put it to where it will do the most good.
In 1 Chronicles 26:20-28, the children of Israel had been blessed with great treasures, so much so that a long list of able-bodied men were given responsibility for transporting it and keeping it safe. They had so much cash that God had them “pull down the wealth” in order to maintain the house of God.
God wanted the money reinvested to where it would do the most good. God wanted the money reinvested in him.
God was also very specific about where this money was to come from. Verse 27 tells us that out of the spoils of battle they dedicated funds to maintain the house of the Lord.
God does not want our family to go hungry in order for us to give to the church. He wants to bless us until we have so much that we must “pull down the wealth” and give it to the church. When we are blessed by God, he desires us to reinvest our excess in him.
God holds all the blessings upon this earth in the palm of his hand. When he gives good gifts unto us, he desires us to give a portion back unto him.
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