2013: Give More

Sunday, January 13, 2013 Posted by Joline

I have been blessed.
I am not rich.
My husband and I make a modest salary between the two of us.
We've been crawling out of credit card debt since 2009.
Next month, I am happy to say, WE ARE DONE.
The credit card debt we've carried since moving from IL to PA, after losing a ton from the sale of our house, will be NO MORE.
What does this mean?
Well, while we've been tithing my husbands salary, I have not exactly been tithing mine consistently.
This year, 2013, God has spoken very clearly. I will:

TITHE my weekly salary every Sunday.
SAVE $12,000 by the end of the year.
GIVE over what I've tithed. Without overly thinking about it. Random acts of giving. Financially.

Those are big goals. But guess what I've done to help me reach them?

I announced them on this blog.
I announced them to the team of people with whom I work.
I asked two women with whom I meet every week, to hold me accountable. And, strangely enough, we meet to pray on Thursdays - my pay day. I'm thinking I'll just bring my checkbook and write my tithe check right in front of them.

I'm serious.

I've never felt like I could help like this.

That was weak thinking, for God is the provider, not my business.

I'm ready.