I've been wrecked the past week on my view of money. This has been my week in view of money.
1. I was dumb and decided to wait on getting new tires for my car because I didn't want my bank account to drop below a certain point. Then I got a flat tire. I lost all bargaining power at that point, because when you're running on a dummy spare; you are the dummy. So the tires cost me more because I couldn't get the price down because when you're in need you're in need.
2. After dropping a mint at Firestone, I go to an atm to get some cash, and I left my card in the machine. So when I realize this, 4 hours later, at Lowe's I called my bank and canceled my card and got a new one. Now my pseudo-limitless spending power is now suspended for a week to ten days.
I'm now limited to using the money I got at the atm and checks. Who uses checks?
3. Today I decided to go sell some of my stuff and drop some stuff off at goodwill. I left at my house at 5pm, every place that would buy stuff that a 20 year-old would like to sell, was closed and we had a hurricane like storm, good thing I got new tires.
They did pretty well, not gonna lie.
God really has shown me that this move in my life is not about the money. It is not so I can save up treasures on earth. I tried that recently and God didn't let that last to long.
Hebrews 12:3-11
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
"My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives."
7It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields(S) the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
So praise Him that he does not let us chase after things of this world when we are his. He treats us as a loving father treats his children, but he is not a human who makes mistakes he is the almighty God who never fails or makes a mistake. How wonderful of a hope do we have in our Lord?
