Giving Everything to the Poor

As I was going into college I really didn't want to be one of those kids that went to college with no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was trying so hard to figure it out. I finally came up with the idea to go to school for Communication with hopes to end up in ministry someday. 

That decision didn't come easily though! I had good enough grades and had scored high enough on my ACT that I could have gone to almost any school for almost anything. It was definitely a blessing, but made it hard at the same time. I had heart that wanted to share the Gospel, but a mind that could get me to a place where I could financially support others who could share the Gospel. My final decision was based out of Mark 10 where a man comes up to Jesus and asks what he needed to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus tells him a few of the ten commandments which the man says he's kept from his youth, but then Jesus drops the bomb! "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven. Then, come follow me."

The man was very wealthy, so went away sad. The verse leads you to believe that the man was not willing to give up his possessions to follow Jesus. 

I was young. I didn't know myself very well. I was scared that if I made enough money to send others that I'd choose to use it on myself instead. I was scared that I would also choose money and possessions instead of the Man who I was basing my decisions around.

It turns out that God made some things very clear to me while I was in Communication's school and I learned that He had other plans for me. I learned a lot about myself and knew that Jesus was always going to come before those things in my life if I wanted Him to. 

First things first though! Debt is a killer.