Financial Freedom

Yesterday after my sermon about “Extreme Makeover: Your Finances” a visitor to our church came up to me and summed up my sermon perfectly when he told me something his dad had always told him:“It’s not how much you make, but what you make of what you have.” Like many of us, I have not always followed this wisdom. Instead I’ve gotten caught up in the trap of always wanting more: I want a new TV, a new car, a new computer, a new I-Pod, a new cell phone, more cable channels, more music, more stuff, more, more, more. I have a book on my desk entitled Longing for Enough in a Culture of More. I think the title says it all – we need to understand that Christ and what he has given us is enough, rather than always longing for more. The apostle Paul said it this way, “… I have learned to be content with whatever I have. (Philippians 4:11)”. Financial freedom begins when you first find contentment in what you already have.