“It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract our desires to our present condition, and whatever may be our expectations, to live within the compass of what we actually possess.”
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) in Day’s Collacon, compiled and arranged by Edward Parsons Day (New York: IPPO, 1884) 178.
Living beyond our means not only hinders generosity but enslaves us to debt, and then we discover that even the idea being generous has been swallowed up by our own unbridled desires.
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5