Working, saving, living conservatively, and trying to get to the place where you can retire can be a motivating goal. However, your body is at a much better place and has much better capabilities than it will have later. If you put all your efforts, plans, and goals into a future that pulls many important and wonderful things out of the present, your retirement plan may be skewed out of proportion. If you develop work habits, business relationships, schedules, and fulfillment out of accomplishments, you may not be trained for retirement when it comes.

There are a lot of important things, like relationships, that are vital for your future. People are the most important investment you can make. If money, possessions, positions, popularity, prestige, power, pleasure, or accomplishments dominate your mind and goals, they can pull you away from people who can really make your life wonderful. While you are working on your future, make sure you ask Jesus to help you work on your future with those who really matter. And, it is most important to maintain a relationship with Jesus.

There is a way for you to be blessed, prospered, successful, and loved just by making some small changes in your way of doing things. If you use people to get things, then you will not be investing in your eternal future. If you use things to help people, then you are making investments in eternity. Jesus has a way for you to be very happy, successful, and fulfilled while laying up treasure in eternity. It is amazing how easy it is to make small changes that have eternal perspectives in them.

If retirement is the area where you are suffering the most, then Jesus will use this study to provide you with Biblical principles that will help you find the victories you need. Just select the “Retirement” word in the gray box and it will take you to that study.