Who wants to be a millionaire, lets be honest is it all that its cracked up to
be? Can success be
measured by the amount of money and power that a person has? At Hope Café last
month we asked
ourselves this question. Money is so important to some people they will do
anything to get it. Some
ideas that people use to get rich quick include-
• Winning the lottery of course, but unfortunately the odds of winning are
worse than the chance of
being struck by lightening!
• Invest in property? Sorry missed the boat on that one my friend since
the property crash.
• More risky enterprises might include- robbing a bank. OK highly illegal
and could land you behind
bars but for some the love of money leads them up this path.
• Finally, if all else fails and love of money is so strong how about…
selling a body part!
The lengths people will go to for riches. It is interesting that with all this
emphasis on money and all
the material things it could buy one would think it would make us all much
happier. However, a BBC
survey found that people in Britain are less happy today than in the 1950s.
Perhaps money is not
fulfilling all human beings need? In fact money and getting rich quick can be
very bad for you. Look at
William “Bud’ Post who won $16.2 million in a USA lottery in 1988. Being a nice
chap he gave some
money to his family but they were not very friendly and his brother hired a hit
man to kill him, his
girlfriend sued him and others used his money in failed business.

Rob Parsons in his book ‘Heart of Success’ says, “no one on his deathbed ever
wished they had spent
more time at the office”. Some tips include:
1. Don’t just settle for money- relationships need time and nurture
2. Believe in the work you do- find a job you like or can see how it makes
a difference to the world.
3. Believe in the power of dreams. Don’t give up on yours!
4. Put family before career
Jesus said the love of money is the root of all evil. For inner peace and a full
life, seek God for the
answer for a successful life. Someone asked one of the richest men in the world
once, ‘how money do
you need to make you happy?’ He answered, ‘Just a little more!”