For the Love of Money

Everyone is striving daily to gain more of the all American dollar however at what risk will you go to obtain it all?

It's our top goal in life that we strive after above anything else. We all want more money and we know that in other to obtain that money we must first become successful at something. This success rate may be achieved either by our own personal talents or by achieving rank within the dreams and visions of others who already are financially successful.

I have discovered that many believe that by obtaining large amounts of money, they will obtain happiness. Does money really provide happiness? Having the ability to buy what you want and when you want it only gives you happiness for a while. I had a conversation with a friend once and I asked her, "What happens after the high from being rich goes down?" In other words after you first become rich you go crazy buying things and traveling and shopping etc. Then after the high of newly being rich comes down, what next?! Is it even exciting anymore?

Imagine the joy of working hard all month to save up for that trip to the Bahamas and when you have saves up you are thrilled and proud of the treat to yourself.

Now imagine you are rich and well one morning you awake and just go lay on the beach in the Bahamas and maybe the next week you pop up in Tokyo and then pop up in Paris. You may begin to feel no true joy in it because there's no work or joy in it because you just can easily do it.

I believe we all love the pleasure of a challenge. We all love being able to strive to obtain a goal and when it happens. We are thrilled.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with being rich or having a desire for wealth. I'm saying money can't buy you happiness only temporary joy.

People will go to huge extents to obtain money even if it means using others to get it.

This is why the old saying says, "The love of money is the root of all evil".

Never let money rule you. You rule the money.

True happiness comes from God and when we make God our first and we put him above everything in our life, then and only then will we have an everlasting happiness. Things we seek to obtain will freely come to us without us having to steal it or knock the next person down to obtain it.