2 Timothy 1:14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

We have many ways of looking at this relationship we have with God and we label them in ways that make us feel good about our God. We are children of God, we are co-heirs with Christ, we are disciples, co-workers, and especially His Bride.

This morning as I began my studies I was struck with this notion that I do not think about often.

He has invested in us. That deposit is God in the third person, the Holy Spirit.

In business terms we think of investments as being monetary with the investor having an expectation of returns on that investment. The value needs to increase to prove that the investment was a sound decision. If the stock drops, investors will dump the stock.

It is a good thing this isn’t a business arrangement. God invested in us with the promise to never dump us.

• John 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
  John 17:11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

In giving of Himself, He has made us one with Him, and this sovereign God who created all things, would not have invested in us just to lose Himself.

When it comes to guarding the deposit, there is an effort on our part to be aware and keep an eye on that deposit and see to it that the investment gains value in being used according to the will of God who valued us enough to invest in us in the first place.

Given that He is God in the third person and that He has the power to enact the will of the Father and tells us all things the Son has said, then the first thing we can do for God the Father is to be aware of the Holy Spirit. The second thing we can do is to cooperate with Him in whatever endeavor He is doing.

The third thing is to praise God, who with all wisdom, never makes mistakes in His investments.

Isaiah 48:17 (English Standard Version)

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

The flesh will lead you to believe profit is monetary. Those led by the Spirit know better.

Strong’s Definitions [profit]

יָעַל yâʻal, yaw-al’; a primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited):—× at all, set forward, can do good,

Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.

Being followers of Jesus Christ, having the indwelling Spirit, having opened our hearts to Him, we are led by the One who is high and lifted up. Please remember our past conversations regarding this body being His Temple, His dwelling place in us.

He teaches us how to do good because in Him we can ascend His Holy Hill.

Psalm 24:3  Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?

This was Zion, Jerusalem, but now in Christ, the New Jerusalem.

• Revelation 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
• Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

We, in Christ, are betrothed to the Lord, and He is preparing in us a dwelling place, just as the Father wills it, awaiting the time when the Father says, “Go Son, get your Bride.”

Until that day we are led as He teaches us to be profitable in righteousness, mercy and love.