Thirsty for a Zero Balance

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The Bible is full of hard truths, and one of those hard truths is found in Proverbs 22:7, "Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is a servant to the lender" (New Living Translation). How true it is! Carrying debt is an awful burden and paying interest on that debt is almost unbearable. No matter how great or small, when we owe others, our hard work and earnings become more beneficial to our lenders and less satisfying to us. When we live debt-free, we decide what kind of work we'll do, what kind of money we want to earn, and what we'll do with our earnings. However, when we're in debt, our responsibility to lenders influence all of these decisions.


Our financial planning processes should not be consumed with prioritizing payments to lenders but with expressing our faith, caring for our families, and loaning and giving money away to people and organizations in need. Debt distracts us from focusing on what we have to give to others to what we need to receive for ourselves in order to loose the grip of the financial shackles we're wearing. That's not how we were created to live. We were created to live as examples who successfully influence the liberation of others from their own chains. Sometimes circumstances dictate that we help to free others as we become free, but it's a whole lot easier to do when we are already free.

Now more than ever, I am thirsty for a zero balance on every debt I have because I am also determined to completely serve God with my money, not my lender. Five years ago, my husband and I were determined to break our dependence on credit cards and other forms of credit, and we did. Now, we're determining to be free of debt and guess what? We're on the road to succeeding at that as well.

I'm grateful for all of you who have embarked on this journey to financial freedom with me, and I'm excited to see how God will transform us all along the way. However, I have to be honest and tell you that I am more excited about the day when I can type a blog post entitled, We Made It! We're Debt-Free! I am thirsty for it because I know it will enable me to do what's really in my heart to do, and that is to finance the path for other people's freedom.

That day will come, not just for me but for many of us and I can hardly wait!