We like to hedge our bets. The concept behind that is to get the best return for our money.
We’ve heard of mutual funds. We trust mutual funds to take risks on the stock market, but not so many that we might lose a substantial part of our investment.
We share that risk with thousands of others, spreading the potential losses.
A hedge fund is the same in one way: People share the risk. However, hedge funds take very, very big risks in hopes of very, very big rewards.
Or very big losses…which they hope to spread around across a wide segment of investors.
Hedging our bets: taking a risk in hopes it will pay off with a sweet paycheck in the end.
Do we hedge our bets as Christians? Do we take risks, hoping we make heaven our eternal home, but we’re not quite willing to make a full commitment?
Matthew 5:27-28 tells us, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Hedging our bets…hoping our look won’t skewer our salvation.
Matthew 6:24 explains that “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Hedging our bets…hoping our money won’t become our master.
Matthew 5:46-47 cautions us, “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?”
Hedging our bets…hoping our displays of affection won’t become our decimation of affliction.
Matthew 7:3 says, “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”
Hedging our bets…hoping our self-centered uprightness won’t become our spiritual undoing.
Is it worth the risk? Really?
Hedge fund investors are a heady lot, with audacious nerve and veins of steel. They want that adrenalin rush of success, and they are willing to risk total failure along the way.
We don’t want to walk up to the pearly gates, only to have God say to us, “Oh, I’m sorry. You’re almost saved, but those were some really risky behaviors you took.”
We can’t hedge our bets and still make it into heaven.
Let’s go for the sure thing. Let’s invest in Jesus.
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