{"id":32110,"date":"2026-03-16T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=32110"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:23:51","slug":"investment-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/investment-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"INVESTMENT — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

INVESTMENT<\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

11-08-2024<\/p>\n

To mature in our faith,
\nIs our duty to the Lord,
\nFaith will grow daily,
\nAs we study His Word.<\/p>\n

Remaining as children,
\nSaddens God above,
\nSo don’t resist growing,
\nDo you need a shove?<\/p>\n

Learn what you can,
\nYour gifts do exercise,
\nStep out on your faith,
\nYou’ll please His eyes.<\/p>\n

Become a fruitful tree,
\nBranches big and wide,
\nAnd your spiritual light,
\nDo not ever try to hide.<\/p>\n

This God desired when,
\nYour seed He did plant,
\nThus no more excuses,
\nDo not think you can’t.<\/p>\n

So what have you got?
\nAre talents well spent?
\nDid you take advantage,
\nOf the gifts God sent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem INVESTMENT by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 11-08-2024 To mature in our faith, Is our duty to the Lord, Faith will grow daily, As we study His Word. Remaining as children, Saddens God above, So don’t resist growing, Do you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[7168,4133,183,20,21,390,2924,4116,7167,4115,7172,4118,4117,7169,1041,450,1046,4651],"class_list":["post-32110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-babe","tag-babes","tag-baby","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-faith","tag-fruitful","tag-grow","tag-grow-spiritually","tag-growth","tag-investment","tag-mature","tag-maturity","tag-novice","tag-seed","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-talents"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39012,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32110\/revisions\/39012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}