Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Living Within Margin

When I was still in school, my favorite part in Arts subject is doing the margin. I love doing it and I am very good at it. Margin is the space set so that it will not go beyond what is good to look at, (in other words; appropriate).
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In our lives, we have margins, too. Margin is the space between ourselves and our limits. God created the world with "margins".
*He sets the Sunday to be the day of rest.
*He commanded the land to separate from the water.
*He commanded us to give His tithes on what we make.
*He place the night to end the day. (...and many more.)
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To most people, setting financial margin is the most difficult task. Here are some suggestion on how you put margin in your finances:
1. Have a "kingdom-first" thinking
2. Embrace counter-culture
3. Live within your harvest
4. Practice discipline & budgeting
5. Resist impulses
6. Share and lend what you have
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"(The) seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful." Mark 4:18-19 (NIV)

1 comment:

Denise said...

This was a wonderful post, filled with much truth.