PART III
"Like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,” A gazelle is swift and
can run up to 40 mph. The cheetah is the gazelle’s biggest enemy and can run up
to 60 mph. Although the cheetah can outrun the gazelle, Dave reiterates a
report from Discovery Channel informing viewers that the cheetah catches the
gazelle only 1 in 19 attempts. Why is this? The gazelle must outwit the cheetah
with swift & cunning movements, just as we should with credit. The gazelle
is determined to live; we should be determined to survive on what we have not
on what we borrow. As Dave says, we must run from debt with “gazelle
intensity”. And that is what I am doing!
"Like a bird from the snare of the fowler. “ First
of all the snare had to be attractive to the bird or it would have kept flying
and never gone toward it. Aren’t modern day marketers efficient in making the’
snare’ attractive to us: “90 days same as cash”; “an extra 10% off if you apply
for this card”, etc.?
Once entrapped, the bird will fight
with intensity to be free and it will take vigor & strength to escape.
Shouldn’t we fight with intensity, vigor and strength to escape bondage to our
‘neighbors’? I found a sermon by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon delivered in 1857 that had
thought-provoking assumptions concerning the ‘snare'.
"Trouble
is often the means whereby God delivers us from snares. I doubt not, many of
you have been saved from your ruins by your sorrows, your grief, your troubles,
your woes, your losses, and your crosses. All of these have been the breaking
of the net that set you free from the snare of the fowler…God delivers his
people from the snares of the fowler, by giving them the spirit of prayer as
well as the spirit of courage, so they will call upon the Lord in that day of
trouble and he (will) deliver them…God will restore thee; return and God will
have mercy on you. God will deliver you so you may start afresh in the ways of
righteousness, serve God with diligence.”
Isn’t it interesting that words stated in 1857 are still
applicable today?
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