Rebuilding Finances

Good morning family. Thursday are always busy. Is it me or does everybody feel all their meetings are on Thursday? Anyway, just happy to be living a productive life full of family and friends. I know that sounds cliche' but it's so true. Some of us have taken the long way through life, missing out on joy and happiness because we've allowed ourselves to be consumed with human responsibility that was never meant to be ours. Yesterday I had two different conversations about the same-thing, finances. When I think about how I ran through money, not using it the way God intended, I cringe. It took years for me to understand that money wasn't going to make me a better person, it wasn't going to fix all my problems and certainly wasn't the answer to true happiness. I used to envy people who I felt were better off than me. You know the friends that were able to buy whatever they wanted. What I wasn't getting  is that I had no idea how they were able to shop like they wanted, were they using credit cards, were they functioning on borrowed money? Why did their finances seem to be flowing so freely? Sometimes standing on the outside of a person's life leads us to wrong conclusions, makes us feel inadequate because we think they have the secret to success based on what they've accumulated. What we have to do is find out for ourselves how to reach financial freedom. The first step is to evaluate our spending habits, our giving habits and overall needs/wants. Are we giving God our first, I know I haven't been, are we spending when we should be saving, I am,  are our closets so full that we can't squeeze another thing in them? What's over-loading us? It's time to break those financial bad habits. Stop accepted what we're used to and start implementing biblical/practical habits. Face it, we ain't getting no younger. TeamRebuildingFinances. Bblessedloveyou