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How to Pay Another’s Debt
It started with the popular current activity of paying for the person behind you in the checkout line or fast food drive-through. It certainly is fine gesture of goodwill. I rarely eat at fast food restaurants, but started to wonder what I would do if my meal were paid for. Would I pay for the person behind me if there was someone behind me in line to keep the cycle going?
What the Bible Teaches Us About Money and Success
Perhaps the most important financial advice in the Bible comes from 1 Timothy 6:10:
For the love of money is the root of all evil. (KJV)
Money is not bad; greed is. Working to have money is of vital importance and God places money and wealth front and center. I see so many people suffering financially because they believe “money” is the root of all evil, when that is the furthest thing from the truth. It is the “love” of money that is the problem. Avoid that and you are golden.
There is so much more financial advice than that just in the four gospels and Proverbs. Of course, if you are serious about wealth, you might want to read the entire Bible as Living Literature. The stories still resonate and for good reason. They are archetypal stories dripping with significance. Virtually every bestselling novel and movie can be traced back to some story in the Bible. You just didn’t know it.
Money and wealth are important. And yes, God wants you to be rich. Really rich! Not just in financial terms, but in physical, mental and spiritual terms as well.
The 8th Deadly Sin is Destroying Your Retirement Plans
Greed is frugality gone too far. We see this with bloggers preaching the good news of early retirement by extreme poverty. It becomes a sickness which frequently leads to envy. Greed goes too far when there is no room for charity. Greed goes too far when it comes at the expense of you and your family’s well-being.
We are all different. The virtue we most admire is one we might need to focus on. A through examination of our-self might reveal a vice harming us and those around us.
Benjamin Franklin worked on the virtues every day of his adult life. He would check off each virtue he held true to that day. He failed often and admitted it. Perfection was not the goal. Perfectionism is akin to pride. The goal was to improve each day and do so in an honest manner.
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