The first week's assignment for Momentum for Life is to set aside time for Daily Devotion. While there is more to this than reading the Bible (meditation, journaling and prayer), I decided to take a few minutes and continue reading Genesis this morning. Slowly, yet surely, I am working my way through the first book.
This morning's reading was about Joseph and the seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine in Egypt. I can't explain it, but out of reading about Joseph stock-piling all of the excess crops, I found a deep desire to stop spending money on things that aren't completely necessary. Like $2 iced coffees at McDonalds.
I want to build my own, if even very little, stockpile, and become more responsible about money. I don't want to get the pit in my stomach worrying that my gas has been shut off. I already operate on a cash-only basis, but I really need to start doing it with my priorities solidly in place, both for me and the boys.
A couple verses from last night's session really struck me...
"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Jesus Christ."
Philippians 3:13-14
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