Compounding interest is a mathematician’s contribution to a plentiful tomorrow based on your commitment to a disciplined today.
Math is one of those things that we typically only care about when we’re counting our change at the grocery store or doing our taxes.
And, it’s not exactly the world’s most exciting topic for a blog post. But then again, most blogs aren’t like Tiny Words. Big Life. 🙂
In keeping with our “education” theme, let’s switch over to a lesson in English. In analyzing today’s Tiny Words. Big Life. quote, we find a total of 19 words, 110 characters, and an average of 2.04 syllables per word. We also find, (trust me, I Googled it) – the quote has a Flesch Readability Index of 13 – which isn’t very good.
Maybe I need to go back to school and learn how to write.
But, in the interest of moving forward, let’s look at what the words mean rather than studying the sentence structure and this Blogmeister’s writing proficiency.
The post is not about Math or English. It’s about commitment and discipline – things you typically don’t learn in a classroom.
In today’s Tiny Words. Big Life. Bible verse, we find King Solomon writing in Proverbs about the wisdom of gathering money “little by little” to make it grow.
Sounds a lot like the rule of compounding interest to me… If you consistently save a little money over a long period of time with interest, the money will multiply and grow very large. It’s not magic – it’s math.
But none of that matters if you’re not committed and disciplined.
Our relationship with God is a lot like that. As we grow in our faith and continue our walk with God the Father, He will consistently pour into our lives the blessings He promised. As we obey His commands and live our lives accordingly, our blessings will be multiplied into something truly magnificent – through the “compounding interest” of faith.
The Tiny Words. Big Life. takeaway is this: Pray for strength to remain committed and disciplined to obey God’s commandments. Be thankful for all the fruits that God bestows on you, through His infinite grace and mercy. For God’s compounding interest results in riches that are not of this world, but of the eternal one to come.
Finally, to complete our classroom lesson, let me remind you that God is the original mathematician. He not only invented E = mc2 but made the world in which it applies.
Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.