A Proverb a day gets you on your way!
Here is the Daily Dose for Wednesday, January 13, 2016.
Wealth from get rich quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. Proverbs 13:11
POWERBALL
There is a drawing, twice a week, every week, but you don’t hear about all of them. There are millions who buy a ticket every week, hoping that a dollar and a dream will be enough. People use favorite numbers, dream interpretations, birthdays, and all sorts of guessing and random chance to get just the right combination so that they can hit the POWERBALL. With the jackpot currently sitting over $1.5 BILLION everywhere you go there is POWERBALL fever. Everyone has a ticket. Everyone has a dream. Everyone has a plan for what they would do if they were to win. They know it would be life changing, and that being rich over night would be the best thing in the world. Maybe, maybe not.
Interestingly enough, many people who have actually won the lottery have said it made their life much worse than it was before. Beyond that, there is a huge number of lottery winners who after winning went broke. Sure, with $1.5 billion it isn’t likely that you would go broke, but it could happen. You see the problem with getting rich over night is you are not used to that kind of money. You don’t know what to do for taxes, or the people that will come out of the woodwork with their hands out, or the fame that will comes with being suddenly rich. Sure we all think it would be great, but it could be the worse thing that ever happened to you.
What most of us really want is not to get rich over night, but to have some long term financial security. We want a little less pressure with paying our bills. We want a little more flexibility and a little more disposable income for the little things we want. To have what you really want you don’t need to hit the lottery, you just need a little hard work. There are stories of janitors, maids, and all kinds of people who never had a lot of money, but they worked hard, stayed the course and over time wound up with more than enough. So if you’re playing the POWERBALL today, good luck, if you don’t win, work hard, spend less than you make, save a little and over time you’ll see you have more than enough.
Be Blessed,
Rev
Daryl Williams 