Do riches reduce stress?
January 8, 2020
I’m Miriam Neff-with STARTING OVER FINANCIALLY, and I’m Valerie Neff Hogan, and we’re here to talk about money
M Standing in the postal line chatting with the young man behind me, the topic of winning the lottery came up. He said he often fantasized of how he would spend millions. He ask if I did. I replied ‘No.’
V It’s common to think of how much better your life would be with that windfall of money. Let’s ask as Job did, “Will your riches keep you from distress, or all the forces of your strength?” Job 36: 19.Not really, as many spend it all quickly and their lives are no better, or are even worse afterwards.
M Proverbs 13:11 reminds us ‘Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.’