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So, You're Saying I Still Have a Chance, Right?

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"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor." ~ Benjamin Franklin

☘ Haha!  Did you just experience the shudder of Algebra 2 math class?  I don't know what that formula means either.  Except that they use it to calculate the probability of winning the lotto. Did you know the odds of winning the lotto are about one in 300 million?  I mean, so you're saying we still have a chance, right?  

Don't get me wrong, I would love to win the lottery.  One of the things I would do is buy a Christmas tree farm.  Oh, and a therapy alpaca farm.  But caution- one-third of those who win the lottery end up broke.  So then what would I do with all my alpacas?

☘ Here's a story about breaking the chains of this world's thinking:



☘ The world tells us more is better.  More prestige, more money, more power, more accumulation.  


As always, Jesus had an upside-down approach to us living in the world but not of it.

"Then He said, 'Beware! Guard against every kind of greed.  Life is not measured by how much you own.'" Luke 12:15

And again, as always, God's word guides us to what's best for us- not to keep us from having any fun:

"For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.  And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows."  
1 Tim 6:10

☘ It's human nature to want to live a life of comfort.  I don't know of anyone who has ever said they wanted a life of misery and poverty.  


Money can enable us to bless people in so many ways.  It's our heart's view of money - and how we look at it as our security.  God alone is our security. 

"Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires." Ps 27:4

☘ When we look at life through eternity's eyes, we can develop the attitude Paul had- going from a successful, educated and well esteemed businessman, to, after receiving Christ as his Savior, being flogged and jailed several times:

"Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.  I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything.  I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty of little.  For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Phil 4:11-13

☘ Luck has nothing to do with it.

✙ Dear Heavenly Father,
You have promised to always be there with us, provide for us, love us.  Please help us to not mistake equivalence of Your eternal love with our physical wealth.  Help us to have our souls filled with Your Spirit of contentment in You, so we can be a blessing to others.  Amen. 
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