Rich—toward what ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—toward whom ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—have it all, and Jesus ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—comfortable ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—give ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—sacrifice ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—suffering ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—Can you surrender ALL to Jesus, and still maintain your standard of living ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—Who decides your standard of living ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—What determines your contentment ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rich—How much is enough, for you ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
? ? ? “If God gave me the gift of making money (lots of it), then I should spend my life making all I can.” ? ? ? ?
Then what ?
Rich—what for ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A millionaire friend told me to focus only on making money for a couple years (contracts for full-time bobcat work), and pause helping others whenever they ask, to get out of debt—then return to helping others, with freedom.
Getting out of debt is very good, Biblical—but my pastor immediately pointed out a problem with my ‘successful’ friend’s plan.
He said that once you get used to making more money, it is unlikely you will return to helping others later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rich—toward what ? Rich—toward whom ? Rich—have it all, and Jesus ? Rich—comfortable ? Rich—give ? Rich—sacrifice ? Rich—suffering ? Rich—Can you surrender ALL to Jesus, and still maintain your standard of living ? Rich—Who decides your standard of living ? Rich—What determines your contentment ? Rich—How much is enough, for you ? ? ? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}