About $1440 - Exactly 1440

Time in a day vs. money.  This caught my attention this week, because I just spent about the same number of dollars on appliances, that I pray serve me well into the future.  In my capacity at AllExperts.com, I receive quite a few private questions regarding money.  I received a budget question from a person who makes about that amount of money in a given time frame, as well as someone who recently borrowed that amount, and an individual who needs about that much money, and doesn't have it.

Considering the economy and the fact we are surrounded by temporal things, I would wager to guess, most of us, fit into one of those four circumstances.  This life costs money, and yet we say we don't want to focus on money.

It would appear, somehow in the previous paragraph, four kinds of people are represented, and regardless of need and circumstances, what we do all have in common is the same amount of time in a day.  Time like money, can be invested or spent, however; it cannot be placed in a bank, per se.  Considering interest rates, money really isn't worth saving either, these days . . . yet I digress.

In the four scenarios of the money situations, I spent that much hoping it "serves" me, and very grateful that I wasn't caught up in the rent to own plans that abound.  The person making that much in a pay period was wanting help budgeting to make it work for them.  That individual is probably in the minority.  Most of us don't consider a budget until what we're doing isn't working.  The person who borrowed it, will ultimately be paying a great deal more for that instant fix.  Sadly, our nation's economy is only based upon perpetual motion.  Isn't it interesting that interest rates are so low for saving and so outrageous for borrowing?  The person who needs that amount of money is probably in the mainstream of today.  Sadly mainstream America is now comprised of people who simply do not have the means to maintain the lifestyle that is mainstream America.

We do the same thing with out time.  Hopefully, some of the time we spend is viewed as investing in the long term.  Abraham had that perspective.  We also have to make plans to accomplish.  The Proverbs 31 woman very well, portrays planning.  None of us claim to have enough time and most of us are aware of something coming in which we want to set apart a block of time.   Y'hshuwah demonstrated how to use the time we are given, even when it seems short and we are promised; in union with Him, our need will be supplied.