One of his famous quotes is if you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else. I’ve thought about that, and agree there's a lot of peace and freedom with the debt-free lifestyle Ramsey advocates. But I wonder too if the live like no one else motto is maybe a little incomplete without a quote from Treasure Principle author Randy Alcorn who said, God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.
Our family of seven is still trying to figure out what that means. What we’ve come up with so far is that living like no one else means purposefully not buying things we can afford - or buying less expensive things - in order to free up more of God's money for the things that are burning on His heart – like homeless people. Like the 20,000 kids around the world who die everyday from hunger and preventable diseases. Like the 2,000 language groups that still don't have a Bible. In other words, we need to be more in tune with the things God cares about, and less in tune with what's on sale this week at Meijer, Best Buy, Lowes...you get the idea.
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