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Before You Borrow
‘Give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.’ Proverbs 30:8 NLT
When you think about it, you can be rich in one of two ways: either in how much you have, or in how little you want. Much of the debt crisis in our nation has been caused by our failure to be satisfied with enough.
In a brilliant section of Proverbs penned by the mysterious Agur, we find this prayer: ‘O God, I beg two favours from you; let me have them before I die. First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.”’ (Proverbs 30:7–9 NLT) Having read that, always try to observe these six rules when it comes to borrowing. Debt is wrong:
written by Bob Gass
‘Give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.’ Proverbs 30:8 NLT
When you think about it, you can be rich in one of two ways: either in how much you have, or in how little you want. Much of the debt crisis in our nation has been caused by our failure to be satisfied with enough.
In a brilliant section of Proverbs penned by the mysterious Agur, we find this prayer: ‘O God, I beg two favours from you; let me have them before I die. First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.”’ (Proverbs 30:7–9 NLT) Having read that, always try to observe these six rules when it comes to borrowing. Debt is wrong:
written by Bob Gass
