Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled A Ludacris Investment was written by Wyn Collier.

In 1929, as the U.S. economy crashed, millions of people lost everything.

But not Floyd Odlem. As everyone

else panicked and sold their stocks at cut rate prices, Odlem appeared to foolishly jump in and

purchase stocks just as the nation's future disintegrated. But Odlem's foolish perspective paid off,

yielding robust investments that endured for decades.

In Jeremiah 32, God told Jeremiah to make what seemed like an absolutely ludicrous investment.

Buy the field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

This was no time to be buying fields, however. The entire country was

on the verge of being ransacked. The army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem. And whatever

field Jeremiah purchased would soon be Babylon's. What fool makes an investment when everything

would soon be lost? Well, the person who's listening to God,

the one who intended a future no one else could envision. In Jeremiah 3215 we read,

this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says. Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be

bought in this land.

God saw more than the ruin. God promised to bring redemption, healing, and restoration.

A ludicrous investment in a relationship or service for God isn't foolish.

It's the wisest possible move when God leads us to make it, and it's essential that we

prayerfully seek to know he's behind the instruction.

A foolish investment in others as God leads makes all the sense in the world.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Jeremiah chapter 32, verses 6 through 15.

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