Proverbs chapter 13
(Pro 13:11) Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. Recently the Mega millions Lottery reached a whopping $640 million at the time of the drawing. Now the purpose of this blog isn’t to debate the lottery, but who hasn’t at one time or another sat and fantasized about winning millions and what we would do with it? I personally don’t play, not because of some conviction, I just take the approach that I won’t win anyway. But I have thought about what I WOULD DO WITH ALL THAT MONEY! We as Christians would in brief forget about daily trusting God and trust our money for our needs. You may be the one that says “not me, I would be able to handle it”. What makes you think you can defy God’s word and make it work?
Jack Whittaker won a record $314.9m Powerball jackpot in 2002. But life since then has been a long list of arrests, lawsuits, broken relationships and even death. In 2007, his then wife, Jewell admitted she wished she had ‘torn up the ticket’. William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988. He later described the experience as a ‘nightmare’ and wishes it had never happened – who can blame him after he was sued by a former girlfriend eager to get her hands on the cash and his brother hired a hitman in the hope of inheriting the winnings. He invested in ill-fated family businesses and within a year was $1m in debt. Today he gets by on social security payments. Janite Lee won $18 million in 1993. Her generosity in giving money to a variety of political, educational and community causes was commendable – but just eight years later she filed for bankruptcy
LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIER!