Luke 16:11 – “If you cannot be trusted
with worldly riches, you will not be trusted with the true riches.”
There is a fever-pitch swarming around the nation as many states
participate in the highest potential lottery game win-fall in history. Neighboring states that do not participate in
the lottery drawing see their citizens driving often hundreds of miles to cross
borders to purchase tickets for a chance at unbridled wealth. For the opportunity to instantly be delivered
from debt, poverty, misery or just to have more and more and more, many are
putting together lists of numbers ranging from birth dates, anniversaries, and
lucky digits or just throwing luck to the wind by getting computerized
quick-picks.
Everywhere I go the conversation somehow centers on what ‘I” would do
and where “I” would go if “I” got that money.
Needless to say, I too, have daydreamed about what that kind of wealth
could do for me, my family and my dreams for my ministry; but I can’t see
spending gobs of money on a long shot. Admittedly I have purchased one ticket
for each drawing. Each week when it has rolled over I too was disappointed
because I did not win, but I merely lost $2.
Some people are spending hundreds of dollars and even turning over their
paychecks to purchase lottery tickets. If
people would invest as much money in missions, education, medical research, as
they have done over the past few weeks on a lottery pipe-dream so many of the
world’s ills could probably be reconciled.
Can God trust us with the stewardship of world possessions in such a way
that we demonstrate confidence in what heavenly rewards he has for us? Let’s be sure to examine our motives and our
actions. We must be sure to invest as much (or more) in God’s plans as we do in
our own dreams.
Every day is a good day; it
is up to us to a make it a GREAT day! Be blessed! Dr.
JoAnn
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