Worried about money?

[Psalms23]

As humans and as sinners, we worry a lot. There is something that we are always worrying about. One of the things that we worry about is money. How am I going to pay this bill, how am I going to be able to fix my car, how am i going to pay for this, pay from that...I have no money....Dont worry, like on every piece of money...It says, ""in God we trust." So just trust in the Lord, pray about it and God will provide! :)


God Bless,
Aaron

[Kelly]

Amen Aaron! So true!

[confused]

i just want to thank you SO MUCH for putting this up here.... i needed to see this, and it was no accident.

i had just been praying today for God's wisdom concerning my money situation... looming student loan repayment (starting next month!! ah!!!) and no job equal a good combination to worry. i almost literally have nothing in the bank.
i ask for prayer, and will earnestly pray for others in the same boat.
The Lord reminds me constantly i am not the only one that has student loan debt!! lol
something amazing will happen. i know it. :)

may i/we never forget whose house we live in, because he is mighty to provide everything we need, above what we could ever imagine.


He who has called us is faithful.



though it is constantly on my mind, thank you for the reminder to give it to Him.

[Kelly]

I'm basically in the exact same boat! Although I'm currently paying off my student loans and only work 4 days a month! I also receive Social Security because of my disability and since I don't have a full-time job, but they just recently hit me with a pay cut of over $300 per month! I can't complain of course, because I do get SOMETHING from them and without it I WOULD be broke...it's just so hard because I'm at a point where I have more going out than I do coming in and that's JUST in my bills. Factor in having to buy my own groceries here and there, and random things I need to pay for and you've got a recipe for PANIC ATTACK! :eek: I'm basically surviving on what LITTLE savings I have (we're talking only a few hundred).

But God has so faithfully provided up until this point. If I hadn't received the few random blessings I have in the past few months, I'd be living off of my overdraft protection right now! (And I've done that before!) So it would be wrong of me to think that he wouldn't provide for me from this point on!

[drake71449]

well it says that we should cast all of our cares on him for he cares for you!.....this is a burden that we could place on the lord and take his yoke upon us....for his yoke is easy and his burden is light!

[Convicted]

The Lord reminds me constantly i am not the only one that has student loan


Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.


On the topic at hand, I think Jesus gave us some good advice on this:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nore gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therfore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:25-34

"And my God shall supply all your need according ot His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

[drake71449]

Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.


On the topic at hand, I think Jesus gave us some good advice on this:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nore gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therfore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:25-34

"And my God shall supply all your need according ot His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19


well said...very well said!

[LauraA]

We all go through times of financial stress. It's a heavy burden to carry, but in the end, we all come through it one way or another....always by God's provision and grace. I'm praying for all who are going through this.

[revelation21ready]

Amen to that Aaron! Ive been through lots of rough times and the Lord has always provided for me..Thank You Lord!!!...It hard not to worry since we all struggle....But if you put God in the center of everthing Life is so much better!

[confused]

Eh, student loans. That's one reason I'm reluctant to just rush off to college. I personally think that education should be free, but we don't live in a perfect world >/.

o my yes. i have always thought that.

Not to go off on a tangent, but, I think its crazy that because I wanted a good, quality education, from a good, quality college, that I have to be in debt for 20 yrs. Yet, there are people with no education working min wage doing better than me. Drug dealers on the street doing better than me. Heck, there are some people with NO jobs doing better than me because they live off the system.
It bothers me.

[Convicted]

Not to go off on a tangent, but, I think its crazy that because I wanted a good, quality education, from a good, quality college, that I have to be in debt for 20 yrs.

(I am wonderful at perpetuating tangents and hi-jacking threads :) Mods!, move this if you want!) The educational system (especially the U.S. educational system) is severly messed up. Yes, it's crazy. Nowadays, if you want a higher form of formal education you either A) have to be rich to pay for it; B) have to find a way to pay for the cost of the education in a similar time period (probably by a job which pays a similar amount to what you will owe for education during that time period - but unless the job is a well-paying job it can be a lot harder to do this, unless you work a lot of hours - which means you'll also have to spend a lot of time studying also during this period of time - and this possibly means that you'll have to either, a) stress yourself out more, or, b) have the possibilty of compromising your educational or job performance - or whatever else, c) both); C) try to do your best to pay for the education while you're receiving the education but you'll probably have to go into debt until you can pay it off - that is, if you can pay it off afterwards. But the amount of time it takes to pay off a loan can depend a lot of different variables: A) what you major in/what your majors are, and how in-demand they are within the job market, B) the job opportunities available to you in your area (and many other factors that I'm not listing here - such as the current global economic position, etc).

All in all, I think it's very sad that people have to pay such a great price for formal education when it comes to a university/college level. And, I do have to say, that sometimes our concept of what we'll receive when we go to college may be a bit off. For instance, going to college and earning a certificate, or degree, or even just several credit points that state you've been to college and succeeded in a few courses - none of this guarantees that we'll have a well paying job - not in today's society. So in a sense, we really get cheated by the cost of education, if we look at it in terms of the actual cash we'll receive in return - although, once could say, it's that very education that brings the opportunity for more cash - but this largely depends on what you major in, the opportunities you're surrounded by, and the depth of knowledge you learn from that education that you can apply to your own advantage (in whatever job or endeavour you undertake) in the future, which offers the the greatest advance for you when it comes to money that you'll receive from your education. Most of the time people view college education as synonymous with a well-paying job - though, by statistics, it certainly hightens the probabilty that you'll receive a well-paying job with the more formal education you receive - but that's not a guarantee.

So, unless you choose to major in a field that is in high-demand and pays equally as well (even at that you're not guaranteed a well-paying job), it really comes down to the job opportunities you are presented with and how well you perform the job (according to the specific employer(s) and how they merit your capability to perform the task required).

Nevertheless, I think education is awesome - job or no job guarentees. You can work a job and make an enormous salary, but what wisdom has it produced within you? What knowledge and understanding have you come to? Perhaps it could be equally as enormous, and perhaps it can be very skimmpy in contrast to the large salary - it depends how devoted the person it to education, for the sake of education. Education, as I see it, offers the biggest opportunity (moreso than for stictly learning how to do something for the sake of money) for a personal growth and a better understanding of the world around us. It stretches us to become more than we are, by challenging us with new information, which has the ability - if indeed we seek understanding - to lift us from our ignorance (concerning whatever subject at hand) in order to see what actually is - but not just to stop there, but to also challenge what is, and imagine what can be - and then work towards implementing that idea into reality as we know it. This is why I love education and knowledge and understanding! :) Oh, and wisdom; because you need wisdom to know what to do with the knowledge you possess - otherwise, knowledge can be a very dangerous thing if utilized in the wrong way.


Yet, there are people with no education working min wage doing better than me.

I've heard this coming from a lot of college graduates nowadays. Sometimes I think, it's better to work for a while - save as much money as you can, and then, when you have the money to pay off your education as you go (each year and/or semester), then go to college. But at the same time, it depends how long you work before you go to college. At the rate that student fees are rising, it's like twice the rate of inflation (if I recall accurately). This means that the prices for a higher education will probably continue to rise... so, is it better to wait and possibly have to pay higher prices and try to work to accumulate whatever extra costs you'd be stuck with if the rate of education increases by the time you go to college, or is it better to just go to college now and pay off as much as you can at the time and then try to pay off all your debt later? Hmm. I don't know. I guess it depends on the situation.


Drug dealers on the street doing better than me.

Maybe, but what can be said about the education they've received from drug-dealing? It is possible that there are drug-dealers that are also simultaneously interested in furthering their education, but I wonder how many of them choose to continue to seek education while they have such a high salary to make their external world comfortable. Your education does have value.


Heck, there are some people with NO jobs doing better than me because they live off the system.

This is true, but at the same time - would you really want to be that dependent on the system (moreso than what you are - after all, this is an entire globe that is run on economical/political/social monopolies - concerning money)? I mean, if you live on the system you have to think about what would happen if the system just deceided to do away with supporting you - you'd then be left without anything, until you could find some way to manage to support your own living expenses - in today's society this is not necessarily an easy thing. It's good that you don't have to directly live off of the system in this regard - because if you were to, your living expenses would be entirely dependent upon the decisions of the system. If the system decided to stop supporting you, or the support they gave you is not supporting you very well - that would kinda suck, don't you think? Some of them may be doing better than you, but that can also change in a flash of a governmental decision. That's why it's better not to stake your life on something like governmental decisions - if you can avoid this, at least, in the sense of being directly dependent upon them.


It bothers me.

Indeed. It bothers me also. But alas, like I stated earlier, we don't live in a perfect world. This is why I am ever reminded on a very daily basis that the treasures we seek in this temporal world are vain in contrast to that of our eternal, celestial homeland, which we long for moreso everyday. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven! These rewards will never fade away, much unlike our current, transitory world that leads to utter demise.