Debt is modern day slavery

Has debt turned you into a slave?

That's a scary thought, isn't it? In one sense, slavery in the United States ended in 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But in another sense, slavery is even more widespread today--slavery to debt.

Until you see your financial obligations as slavery, you won't make any effort to break free of them. Slavery chains you. It chains you to a duty to repay these liabilities before you can experience freedom. The more you owe, the more chains you have on, dragging you down.

According to the web site Motley Fool, the average American is carrying $8,562 in credit card debt. Whew! That's a lot of chains!

It's beyond the scope of inspiration-for-singles.com to help you overcome your credit card debt. However, you can use the reputable debt counseling service advertised on the bottom of this page to help you turn your life around.

Not natural at all

You can do this, but it's going to take a major change in your thinking. When you start to see getting out of debt as something wonderful, a tremendous gift you're giving to yourself, you'll take a giant leap forward.

We've gotten into the dangerous habit of seeing purchases as gifts to ourselves. But if those purchases are made on credit cards and we don't pay off our credit card bill as soon as we get it, then they're not a gift at all, but a curse. Too strong?

I hope you'll read the message about "anesthesia" purchases on the money page. It's especially relevant to us singles and may help you understand why you buy so much.

When will it ever feel good again?

Same thing with credit card debt. And when you manage to pay it all off, you'll feel so good that you'll never want to shackle on those chains again.

As a Christian, you're obligated by Jesus to love yourself, and to love others as you love yourself. If you wouldn't enslave another person, why would you do it to yourself?

You're better than that. You can do this! You owe it to God and you owe it to yourself to set yourself free. This is a slavery that only you can emancipate yourself from.

You have the courage to do this. You have the strength to say, "That's it! No more." Your faith in God--even if it's as small as a mustard seed--and help from a professional debt counselor can move your mountain of debt.

Debt:	Savings:
Produces worry	Relieves worry
Causes dependence	Causes independence
Restricts your choices	Adds to your choices
Puts your focus on lack	Puts your focus on abundance
Lowers your self-esteem	Raises your self-esteem
Makes you a poor steward	Makes you a wise steward
Limits God's blessings for you	Increases God's blessings for you