Or imagine you are in the midst of an amazing career that is very lucrative but God calls you to leave it so you can work for a non-profit doing really important work that pays peanuts. Or try this – imagine your parent, child or best friend gets an amazing and important opportunity (maybe a medical breakthrough, a school program, or a mission trip) but it can only happen if they buy an expensive ticket they can’t afford so they are asking you to help. Imagine you are on your way somewhere important when suddenly your car temperature gauge redlines and smoke starts to pour out from under the hood. We would have saved YEARS of stress, of interest, of worry and instead invested in our future, in peace, in God’s calling for our finances. What I wouldn’t give to have a talk with my former self about the joy of finding financial freedom. Nope, none of that mattered because I WANTED IT. Forget the fact that we had exactly $0 saved to buy a car or the fact that my current car was in perfectly fine shape. Forget the fact that we had built a new house less than a year before. Unfortunately, it was neither – this was me at 25 years old talking to my husband of 3 years about the brand new SUV, in the perfect shade of green, that I insisted we buy.įorget the fact that I had student loans about to come due. Probably those statements sound like something you have heard a kid say when begging for a toy or video game. Finding financial freedom started a little rough for me.
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