Eating Too Expensively and the Danger of Debt

Eating too expensively is not one of the seven abominable sins listed in Proverbs 6. (Can you name them?)

But gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins listed by the Roman church in the 4th - 6th century. Medieval church leader Thomas Aquinas came up with a list of six ways one could commit gluttony: eating too soon, eating too expensively, eating too much, eating too eagerly, eating too daintily, and eating wildly. What caught my attention about his list was the "Eating too expensively" part. I'm taking the David Ramsey Financial Peace University course right now with several families in our church and he talks about how our financial habits can not only drive us into debt, they can keep us in debt.

Doing anything "too expensively" can be foolish, and financially crippling. Did you know that if you saved a hundred dollars a month in your young adult years and put it in a conservative investement that you could be worth over a million dollars by the time you retired?

My good friend Doug Broadbent said his mother used to say that if you watch your pennies the dollars will take care of themselves. I guess the flip side of that coin is that if you don't watch your pennies the dollars will magically disappear. Ouch!

We're going to start a new Financial Peace University class in mid January for 13 weeks on Tuesday nights in Port St. John if any of you are interested.

We're Christmas caroling Friday night, Dec. 18th in Port St. John if any of you are interested, and we're doing a Christmas Eve communion service on the 24th at 6:00 p.m.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your herds; (Pro 27:23)

Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction, And makes their families like a flock. The righteous see it and rejoice, And all iniquity stops its mouth. Whoever is wise will observe these things, And they will understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
(Psa 107:41-43)

Praying for all of you,
Yours in Him,
Pastor B.