Our Struggles with Money
He sat in front of me, bitter and discouraged. His view of his life was that he had been dealt a bad hand. He hated the comfortable lifestyle of so many people around him, and he had long since given up any practical belief in the goodness of God. He had started out our time together by saying this: “I’m here to get your advice because my wife told me to get help or she would leave, but I don’t want you to talk to me about God.” John was in paralyzing debt. He had been in debt for his entire adult life.
John was angry that he had never had a job that paid what he thought he deserved and that would finance the kind of life he had dreamed of. He was mad that the jobs he’d had never seemed to last very long. He hated that his life had been such a struggle and that the struggle had such a negative effect on his marriage. As the years went on, the financial struggle, the debt, and the burden of stress that it had…
