Are you making the same dumb mistake too

A friend, or I should say, someone I really don’t know well told me of a recent experience he had and he was not happy at all.

He had gone to a church early one Saturday morning for a “men’s prayer breakfast” and here’s why he wasn’t happy

He couldn’t pay his car payment and he was looking for money and he wasn’t too happy because he didn’t get any money from the church and he still had his car payment to make.

Are you making the same dumb mistake?

I found it interesting that this guy who doesn’t know anyone at the church was upset because the “free” handout he’s looking for never materialized.

Have you found yourself with a lottery ticket hoping to get something for free? Do you get your hopes up at getting something for “free” or some great game plan to get you out of the debt mess you find yourself in…for free?

Okay, I’ll give you the dumb mistake.

I’ve been exactly where you are. I’ve been in debt so bad I saw no way out of it. When I was in debt so bad my attitude changed and I began to feel like I had a “right” to this or that. That somebody should give me something for free to help me out of the mess I was in.

It was someone else’s fault never my own. If this had gone better or if I just got a raise or came into some money or a relative helped me out or a friend helped me make a payment or THE CHURCH came through with some money everything would be alright.

Well, that’s the dumb mistake. The thinking that if you get something for free everything’s gonna be alright. It’s a dumb mistake because no one, yes no one, got you into your present position except YOU. Look in the mirror…take a good hard look in the mirror.

It’s YOU. You did it. You got yourself into trouble and no one but you can get yourself out of trouble. It’s all up to you and I can guarantee you one thing…

If you find someone STUPID enough to help you out of your present situation you’ll find yourself back in your present situation very quickly because you didn’t pay a THING, not one thing to get out of trouble.

You and only you have to be the one to “work the second job”, to work overtime, to sell stuff, to claw your way out of debt because…when you do it…when it’s done by you…

You’ll actually appreciate being debt free because you actually worked to get debt free…you paid for it. You worked hard to get into debt and you’ll work doubly hard to get out of debt but it will be your work that does it.

You’ll appreciate it even more and will be less likely to go back into debt.

David Dassow