January is the perfect time to set new goals. It is your chance to reflect on the past year and start off refreshed. If you don’t already do so, I would encourage you to take 30 minutes, maybe an hour, to set some goals for yourself.
I opened up about how my pursuit of financial independence was very toxic to my relationship with Christ. The thing I deeply desired was freedom, but what I didn’t realize was that the freedom I was trying to obtain was not the kind of inner freedom I really needed. Freedom is not doing whatever we want with our time and money. God has something better in mind for us.
I wanted dive deeper into what the Bible said about money so I could reveal the truth that financial independence was meant for Christians. But the more I studied, the more my heart changed in the other direction. What became very clear to me was that my underlying motivation was to be able to stop working, retire early, and do whatever I wanted with my time.
God gently reminded me that there is still SO MUCH to celebrate and be grateful for. This year has been yet another very strange one for many of us, yet that doesn’t change the fact that there are blessings big and small all around us every single day.
