Money Makes the World Go 'Round

I cannot remember a time that I did not love God, and so I do not have a testimony of how accepting Jesus changed my life. However, if I had to choose one way that God has challenged and stretched me during the last year, it would be in the area of finances. Before this year, I was anxious about paying for college and car insurance, yet loved to waste money on food and clothes and little trinkets that wound up buried in my closet. So I would divide my allowance between the bank and my wallet. I was not regularly tithing. However, as I became more and more involved in supporting an orphanage in Kenya called New Hope, I became convicted of how I was using the financial resources that God had blessed me with. When I found out that just ten cents provided a meal that saved a child from dying of starvation, how could I justify spending thirty dollars on a new pair of jeans? That was three hundred lives that I could change! I started tithing regularly and giving generously to the orphanage. I sponsor a local missionary and little girl in India through Compassion International. In October, I made a commitment not to buy clothes for a year, in order to better understand what it was like to not have money for new clothes, and also because I wanted to give more to New Hope. As a result of the financial change in my life, I have become more focused on other people instead of myself. I have found joy in sacrificing my own desires to bless someone else. I have learned to give generously and trust God to meet all my needs. And I am able to be a powerful witness of the love of Christ through my cheerful giving.

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