Money and Marriage

                                     MONEY! MONEY!! MONEY!!!

Money! Think of any struggle across the world: money it is! Money is the monster behind the prevalent evils of our time. Like the octopus, its tentacles are spread into every fabric of human society, recklessly wriggling its corrupting fangs. Money occupies a vital position in the family, and it is considered one of the strongest factors of a radiant marriage. Yet it is not a real source of happiness as it has many marriages asunder. It has no intrinsic value. Its value is in the number of goods and services it can buy to meet man’s needs. It must be seen as just a means to an end.

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Money is a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and a universe provider of everything except happiness.

                                                          -Anonymous

A married couple usually works out a budget together and then breaks it separately.

                                                          -Anonymous

Money can build a house but it takes love to make it a home.

                                                          -Anonymous

Love is oceans of emotion surround expenses of expenses.

                                                         -E.C.Mckenzie

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for bigger wages.

                                                                -Sir Roger L’Eestrange

The desire to have money at all cost dominates the thinking of many people today. The ambition of money keeps men and woman outside the home and consequently, robs the family of the love, time and care they need.

Dear reader, determine your needs and restrain your wants. Make the most of what you have and don’t focus on what you don’t have.

                             Did you Know that…

A. He has his money best spent who has the best wife. The husband may earn money, but only the wife can save it.

B. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income.

C. A well- matched couple carry a joyful life between them, as the two spies carried the cluster of Eshcol.

D. A good wife and health are man’s best wealth.

What are the realities of financial management?

1.    Mismanagement of our income will make us to constantly  be in need.

2.    Lack of agreement on how family funds should be disbursed often leads to conflicts in the home.

3.    Selfish spending on personal needs and careless spending on relatives drains the home of needed care.

4.    Covetousness and indulgence leads to poverty in the family.

5.    Readiness to work to support the financial income of the home will go a long way t to keep the family from having crisis.

6.    Absence of family budget leads to uncontrolled spending, unplanned expenditures and squandering.

7.    Tithe paying, giving to others and contributing to God’s work is the secret of overcoming the devourer as revealed in Malachi 3:10-12 and Proverbs 28:27.

                                  TREASURE

                                CHEST.

 

    TRUE LOVE

NEVER GIVES UP. At the time the war broke out, a young man in Brooklyn was engaged to be married to a young lady in New England, but the marriage was postponed. He was very fortunate in battle after battle, until the battle of the wilderness took place, just before the war was over. The young lady was counting the days at the end of which he would return. She waited for letters but none came. At last, she received one addressed in a strange handwriting, and it read something like this- “There has been another terrible battle. I have been unfortunate this time: I have lost both arms. I cannot write myself, but a comrade is writing this letter for me…to tell you that you are as dear to me as ever: but  I shall now be dependent upon other people for the rest of my days, and I have this letter written to release you from your engagement.”

By the next train, she went clear down to the scene of the late conflict and sent word to the captain what her errand was, and got the number of the soldier’s cot. She went along the line, and the moment her eyes fell upon that number, she threw her arms round that young man’s neck and kissed him. “ I will never give you up” she said.” These hands will never give you up: I will take care of you.”

Couples who see the acquisition of money as the most vital segment of their lives together or even the use of it, as the central pivot around which their marriage should revolve, will not be able to get far with the union. If money will not turn to a menace in any marriage, the couple must see cash as their servant, not their master. When values are in conflict, however the affair may be in tension: poor struggle and mutual criticism usually prevail.

The key to money and marriage is ACCESSIBILTY,

ALLOCATION OF FUNDS AND ACCUMULATION.