Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Although not found in the Bible, egg hunts have become a common Easter tradition. Close to Easter seems a good time to remember we don’t put all our eggs in one basket.
As children find Easter eggs, they usually place them in brightly-colored baskets. Too many eggs make a basket overflow. Extra weight from the eggs can make a fragile basket break.
Using more than one basket, if needed, reduces the risk of losing or breaking their eggs.
Neither should we put all our eggs in one basket.
We don’t want to limit our resources to one possibility.
For a greater chance of success, we must diversify.
- Invest money in more than one company.
- Study more than one subject.
- Learn more than one skill.
- Apply to more than one school.
- Develop more than one hobby.
- Plan more than one vacation route.
We want to keep our options open.
If one goal fails, we have an alternative.
If our dream becomes a nightmare, we can follow a different dream.
“But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations” (Psalm 33:11 NIV).
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