So, Robert and I have talked and prayed alot about getting out of debt. When we first married, we did Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace. I was not a huge fan of cutting up my brand new credit card, but I did. We have used some of the basic ideas from Dave Ramsey but have not really followed it exactly.
When we started the adoption process, I knew that I did not want to work when we got our children. I just couldn't imagine having to leave them everyday. I also knew this would require sacrifice in some area, I just wasn't ready to admit it. This summer I got my bus license to help out with some expenses. My thought was that I would "double up" on my car note and pay it off in 12 months instead of 2 years. This sounded like a great idea, but something "always came up" when that extra money came in each month. It is alot harder to put it into practice.
Two weeks ago, I decided I would try to sell my car to help out and not have a car note. I listed in the Tradewinds and boy, God works quick. We sold it in 3 days for the full pay off. I was shocked and a little heart broken. Robert and I have been sharing one vehicle for about a week, until today!
Back to Dave Ramsey. Robert used to say that we would pay cash for our next car and I would just chuckle! That is so impossible. Or so I thought! We paid cash for a vehicle today! Is it new? No. Is it pretty, Heck no! Is it gonna last forever, NOPE! But, it cranks, it runs, it doesn't smoke, and it will get my husband from work to home and back!
I was thinking today after we picked up "Big Bertha" (that's the car's name) that God is so good. He works in such crazy, wonderful, God ways! A girl at church told me tonight, "Sister, you may not have died to self just yet. But I think you are getting sick to self!" What a blessing! I want so bad to die to me and my wants, because I so mess it up! I was thinking of this praise chorus as I typed this. Be blessed!
"God is so good. God is so good. God is so good, He's so good to me."
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