A High Risk Investment

Consider this: you have the opportunity to make an investment that would potentially change your life, lifting you up out of your current situation & placing you into a plush, prestigious lifestyle. An existence of meaning, wealth, authority and power. The payout to this investment has the potential to give you pretty much everything you've ever wanted. Of course, there's the catch. What does this investment cost?

To buy into the investment portfolio costs a near mint. Depending on who you are, it'll cost every pay check of every hour of every day that you work and on top of that, it requires that you put in time "off the clock" to ensure that the investment is maintained. Pretty expensive; pretty demanding. Yet, a few years of just grinning & bearing it would be worth the payout, I’d say--if the level of risk on the investment were pretty manageable. Then, there's the catch again.

This investment I'm talking about is one of the highest risk investments that anyone could even imagine: to date, there's only ever been one confirmed payout. We're talking hundreds of people buying in here, and only one has reported hitting the ROI--Return on Investment--threshold. He, of course, is smiling all the way to the bank & then some. Actually, we're talking about a potential investors' group of over a billion people, every one possibly cashing in on this chance of a lifetime. Sound far-fetched? It ain't. It's just a different perspective.

A high-risk investment has been placed before you. It'll cost pretty much everything you have & leave you in debt up to your ears until you reach the payout point. When you start making a return on the investment, though, you're laughing cuz you officially have it made for the rest of your life--call it "early retirement" with none of the downsides & all of the perks. It just costs two arms and two legs. It requires an all or nothing decision simply because the investment buy-in price is just that high (though, estimates peg this price to be much less than even 0.01% of the payout).

The portfolio management guarantees such high-yield returns to be a 100% possibility, and they also guarantee that the maturity time for the ROI won't leave you six-feet under before it occurs: you will profit immensely from this investment & have all the time in the world to enjoy its fruits. Guaranteed.

Because of this guarantee and the buy-in cost, it's an all-or-nothing deal. If you choose to invest, you must commit to the full investment price: any later choice to back out will result in termination of the agreement with no refunds or exchanges (though this investment does allow anyone to buy-in again, though the cost remains the same).

So what is this crazy expensive (but with even more crazy returns) investment? And where can you buy in? Who manages the portfolio? Well, it's believing that Christ is the son of God, and that he died on the cross to pay for our screw-ups while coming back to life three days later in victory over death. The payout on such a belief is not only eternal life, but eternal life living as rulers and co-heirs with Jesus over all of the universe, having been invested with the power of God Himself. Reigning forever as the third highest authority in the universe (and perhaps even beyond) seems like a pretty sweet deal.

The cost, however, is looking like a retard in this life: foregoing selfishness and some carnal pleasures. Taking the heat from people who think that God, Jesus & the whole shebang is outright foolishness. Upholding the name of Christ even to the point of death. Ultimate fidelity at any cost for the duration of your stay on this planet in this universe in that body of yours. Don't worry: you eventually get a new one. A body designed to wield the power of God much more effectively and much more easily. One not prone to falling apart of breaking: a perfect body, as it were.

It's true that there has only been one confirmed payout. That was Jesus, a couple of thousand years ago. And what if it's all a pipe dream, a big hoax, empty drivel--the opiate of the masses?

If it is, then I'm a huge effing retard. If Christ and his message to mankind was one big lie, then I have wasted my life and missed out on countless opportunities. If this around us is all there is, and if I have hoped in Christ for this life only, then, "we are of all men most to be pitied" (I Cor 15:19).

I've bought in; I'm not turning back. I've placed my bets on this investment. Laugh at me if you will. Or, would you like to be in on this awesome deal too? The choice is yours & the outcome is no one's fault but your own. So: are you in or are you out?