I didn’t have the answer to that question for her and I don’t have that answer for you. Every situation is different for every person and there is not a cookie cutter response that I can give. However, there are some questions I asked her and you can ask yourself. “How do you know that the job that will bring you joy and meaning also won’t pay the bills?” “What can you do to reduce your debt so that you don’t have to worry about the lost income?”
Money is an important part of our lives that is needed to make ends meet, but money should not be the top priority in our lives. God does bless some with wonderful incomes and some He does not. God knows who is capable of managing His money and who cannot. “To whom much is given, much is also required.” All things are given by God and also belongs to Him. So in actuality, what He blesses us with should be used to then bring Him glory by how we use it.
The Bible says “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” Many people get that wrong; that money is evil, but that is not what the text says. It says that the “LOVE” of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It’s the greed of wanting more money that leads to all other type of evil things. Having money is not evil. Loving money over all other things is what is evil.
Do you control your money or does your money control you? That is one of the most important questions that Dave Ramsey asks in his book “Total Money Makeover”. We live in a world that pushes us to have more, want more and buy more by selling us on the lie that we will be happier. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!
Have a great day and God bless.
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