Breaking The Chains Of Debt

So this is a math formula for me. There's a problem on this side of the equation. The other side of the equation gives me my answer for this. Y'all following me? That's how my mind works.

* Gazelle intensity

I'm a math guy. So if you're in debt, do this. And I thought, "I found it. I'm gonna be able to get America out of debt." And I'm reading, and it says, "Give no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, a bird from the hand of the fowler."

And I went, "Huh? I'm sorry, God. Animal metaphor . . . I can't follow here. I'm kind of lost. Really, you could have just told me what to do. Gazelles? Seriously?"

This is how I pray. He's not intimidated by me, okay? So I did not understand. Here's how you get out of debt. "No sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids." I get that part-work, okay? My grandmother used to say that. "There's a great place to go when you're broke: work." Yeah.

And so I've got that part, but then, "Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter? Lord, show me what I don't understand." Sure enough, He answered my prayer with the Discovery Channel. I didn't know He worked through the Discovery Channel, but He does.

So I hit the Discovery Channel that night, scanning channels, and there were gazelles. They were out there gazelling around. I thought, Dude, I was just reading about you guys. This is how you get out of debt. "Like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter."

Now, you know the Discovery Channel wouldn't be filming if the gazelles were there by themselves. You know someone was there looking for lunch in all the right places, and, you know, gazelles, they have a little cheetah detector behind their ear. When they see a cheetah or smell a cheetah, they say, "Uh-oh. Cheetah! Ru-u-n!" Because they don't want to be eaten.

The gazelles cannot outrun the cheetah! The cheetah is the fastest mammal on dry land. He can go from zero to 47 miles an hour in four leaps. Wow! This is a fast cat. He's trying to have lunch. You can't beat him. You've just got to outmaneuver him and hope he quits. And so here's how you get out of debt.

Here's how you get out of debt. You run for your life! You've got to bust it! You've got to run! You've got to go, go, go, go, go as hard as you can go! You've got to go crazy!

Honey, you can wander into debt. You can't wander out. You've got to get gazelle intense.

Here's an interesting thing. The cheetah only catches the gazelle one in 16 times. The gazelle gets away more often than not. The gazelle only gets eaten one in 16 to 19 times. And the cheetah is faster.

I got to thinking about that. Why is it that the cheetah is faster, but the gazelle wins most of the time? Why is that?

Motivation.

One just wants to have lunch; the other one wants to stay alive. Good metaphor, God. I've got it. I've got to work at getting out of debt as if my life depends on it. Because financially, it does. You're gonna work your whole life for the man otherwise. You get to the end of your life, and all of your income's gone to pay payments, and you've just been a slave.