The Real Housewives of Atlanta

So, I’ve been DVRing the Real Housewives of Atlanta for entertainment while I fold laundry, etc. and obviously, these shows are enticing – the people have so much pretty stuff and their lives seem so glamorous. My first thoughts are things like: wow – I wish I had …fill in the blank.

Then, I watch a lady spent $8,000 on some new furniture for her child. When the store clerk asks her how she’ll pay, she responds with: credit card!! Then another lady is getting married and her & her fiancé are fighting about money …and it hits me…
The only difference in them and us is the price of their stuff: their income is bigger, but so are their payments. They still don’t save for purchases – they still depend on credit, they just have higher limits on their cards than the rest of us do.

Most people think that if they only made more money, THEN they would save, THEN they would pay off some debt. This is why we look at people who once made a lot of money and have lost it and we wonder how that happened. The truth is… if you don’t make wise decisions on a $10,000 income, then you will never make wise decision on a $60,000 income, or on a $150,000, or on a $2.3 million income.

God calls us to be good stewards of what we are given – and He doesn’t put income limits on it!