What if every dollar we earned had a name on it? Kirsten points out this question this week as we focus on Spending. Read a portion of her post below and then click through to read the rest on her blog. We’d love for you to add your voice to the conversation, too!
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{Via Kirsten @ Eight | Twenty-Eight}
Whether I spend money at seven stores or 70, what I feel most convicted about is how readily, and thoughtlessly, I spend at all. Certainly, curtailing the number of stores at which I could make purchases would eliminate a lot of frivolous spending. But the exercise from which I would glean the most is spending only in $1 bills. I would be forced to connect with each dollar, acquainting myself with whose name is on each.
Some of those dollars have my name and the names of my family members on them. God appointed some of them to be spent in care-taking for our needs. “Our enemy,” as John Stott said, “is not possessions, but excess.” As I count out each one — be it for the luxury of a new pair of shoes or the necessity of a week’s worth of groceries — I will be required to examine on whom I placed priority in that transaction.
Will I choose to indulge myself in luxury or be an answer to the prayers of whoever’s name is invisibly-inscribed on those dollars?