In our second session of Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University program we were taught about paying off debt. During the instructional video Dave quoted Proverbs 6:4-5.
(NIV) “4Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.”
His point was that we need to work hard and have the same level of “intensity” to get out of debt as the gazelle has when it is fleeing for its life. As Christians, we should have this same “gazelle intensity” about our faith. We know it is a matter of
everlasting life or eternal destruction.
He then stated it in a very practical kind of way, “you can wander into debt, but you can’t wander out.” Dave’s point is that we need to be intentional with our money and take control over our finances, so our finances and our debtors do not control us. As Christians we should be intentional with our faith and take control over our actions.
“You can wander into debt (sin), but you can’t wander out.”
