In terms of material well-being, prosperity, and potential, the American people are the most blessed people in the history of the world. Yet we also consistently survey as less happy than citizens in other countries. One reason we are not as happy as we should be is that we seemed to always want "more," and as importantly, we spend more than we earn. In other words, we spend and live beyond our means, which of course can only go on so long. It's a path that leads to debt, deficits, and bankruptcy. This is a tendency writ large in the US Government where our national debt last check was $36.8 trillion and climbing by the second, and it is a tendency on an individual citizen level.

Scripture has a lot to say about money, never calling it evil but the love of money as the source of evil; never saying the poor are closer to God or the rich are ipso facto unholy but commanding us to remember the poor and to watch out for the dangers embedded in pursuits of money.

DOGE may not be perfect, indeed may make mistakes, but the mission to be better stewards by reducing waste, fraud, and abuse is moving in the right direction. What do we need to do personally to be sure we handle our resources wisely?

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