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Power over the Powerball?

It's Thursday my friends...and you woke up to realize YOU DIDN'T WIN THE POWERBALL...:)  Don't know what to tell you but if you didn't spend any money in the first place you haven't lost anything, and I hope you  STILL are happy!

I don't usually think a lot of Mark Cuban, but I think he nailed it:

"If you weren’t happy yesterday you won’t be happy tomorrow. It’s money. It’s not happiness."
Mark Cuban

True...and surprisingly, he agrees with Paul when he wrote to his young protege, Timothy:

1 Timothy 6:6-10
6  But godliness with contentment is great gain, 
7  for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 
8  But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 
9  But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 
10  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. 

To be sure:  Money, he says, is not evil...it is simply the pursuit of money alone that can serve as a temptation to all sorts of evil.

Jesus reminds us:  Matthew 6:24 
24  "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

It's one of those statements from Jesus that at first takes us back, until we realize what we've avoided by not winning that kind of money.  Our homes are quiet, our phones are still, and we don't have endless details and decisions to make.
It might be urban myth, but research shows that most lottery winners are broke in 5 years, and that when asked if it was worth the while, most say "NO".
In the end, I think there's something very satisfying about contentment...

PEACE

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