“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” (Romans 6:13). Hedge Funds and other Stock Portfolio managers always talk about high yield returns on investment. It may help us to ease the doubts and the fears that accompany the prospect of yielding ourselves to God if we think about yields in a similar way to how the investors use the word. It doesn’t take a very great deal of humility to acknowledge the fact that we might not always be the best managers of our time, talents, and abilities. In fact, most of us have abundant and almost constant evidence to the contrary. But we have a great deal of evidence that our Heavenly Father is a wise and canny investor and an incredibly competent manager of assets. If we come to view the prospect of yielding our whole heart, might, mind, and strength to God, not as some terrifying sacrifice of our autonomy and personal freedoms, but rather as an acknowledgement that God has a lot better ideas of how to best use the resources that we entrust to Him and that as we yield our time, talents, and possessions to Him, He will be able to get much, much higher yields out of them than we could ever do on our own. The decision to yield ourselves to our Heavenly Father, even to the extent that our will is swallowed up in His, is and ought to be a selfless one, but if we are struggling to be as selfless as all of that, then we might as well start from an entirely selfish place of wanting to get as high a yield out of our time, talents, energies, and possessions and that the best way to do that is entrusting all of it with God. With time and as we continue to build our relationship our attitude toward yielding ourselves will change, but if pure self-interest is what we need to get our foot in the door, then going all in on our Heavenly Father and His Plan for us is in fact our best bet.
