Post on 09-Aug-2015
PROVERBS 13:7
One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
PROVERBS 12:9
Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
And we have forgotten to ask what is the real cost, not just the financial cost, but the lost opportunity costs where we can’t give, where our marriages are stressed because we are fighting and worrying about finances,
Where we can’t give our kids opportunities because we have bought things that we didn’t need with money that we didn’t have to impress people that we don’t even know. Bondage. Pretenders.
Today we believe debt is normal. Debt is necessary. Few years ago, few are borrowing, no credit cards etc but now almost everybody has loan and has credit cards, some not one card but many cards.
If you don’t have control of your money or any area of your life, you are like a city whose walls are broken down.
We are going to learn to say, “No,” for a little while, so that we can say, “Yes,” for the rest of our lives.
We are going to invest.
We are going to pay off debt
1. We are planning for emergencies.
2. We are going to eliminate overhead.
3. We are going to build our reserve fund.
4. We have to plan on buying big items.
Our problem is, we are bent toward sin. We are sinners by nature, and because of that, we tend to love the things in this world that we think they will bring satisfaction.