Purchasing power . . . it’s not an expression for the weak of heart nor is it an empty phrase.
Every purchase you make has power.
Power to bring you temporary relief.
Power to provide long term effects.
Power to elevate your life.
Power to bring you down.
Power to provide comfort to yourself.
Power to speak relief into the lives of others.
Power to move your life toward freedom.
Power to further entrench you in the prison of debt.
Arguably the power is neutral and the majority of the time it rests in your hands. Let’s not kid ourselves that the majority of the purchases we make are not out of our control. Yes, crisis and emergency often arrive. However, the 150 purchases prior to the emergency might have averted or at least provided respite when the crisis came. When you’re the last batter to strike out, you have to remember that there were 26 other outs that came before it. It might be the last straw, but there were options that were taken before it, other mistakes that were made.
So many times we (when I say we I mean all of us, including me) choose convenience over longterm effects. I’ve been there so many times before.
A trip through the drive thru.
A new fashion for the new season.
Because it makes me feel good.
Because it’s adorable.
Because everyone else has one.
Because I need it.
So much of paying off debt revolves around pressing pause on personal temporary desires for greater long term stability and good. In many ways, convenience is no longer an option. At least for 4 years, convenience took a back burner as we paid off $127K. It has remained there in many ways.
But let me challenge you to realize the power of your purchases today. You see, even pocket change is an investment. Are your pennies providing you mere temporary relief or a long term result?
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?
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