Living on less than you earn is the bedrock of financial wisdom, and it starts with a plan, a budget that tells your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Budgeting helps you live within your means, allowing you to have a margin, but investing enables you to take that margin and grow what God has entrusted to you. God honors steady and wise investing, and financial freedom doesn't mean independence from God, but rather living as a wise and faithful steward, seeing God as your ultimate treasure and money as a tool to accomplish God's purposes.
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