Money won’t make you happy.

 

I don’t care if you have a billion dollars, or maintain ten mansions across the globe, or wear diamonds the size of ping-pong balls, or own sixteen multinational corporations.

 

I believe that money can make you happy ONLY if you use it to fulfill your ultimate purpose in life–which is to love, help, and serve others!

 

       Here’s another spiritual principle you need to learn: Money will make you happy only if you have learned how to be happy without money.

 

       If someone is miserable and says, “If only I’ll get enough money, then I’ll be happy,” I’ll bet my life this person will continue to be miserable no matter how rich he gets.

 

        Best-selling author John Gray said, “Money is like a magnifying glass.”  I agree.  If you’re truly happy, money magnifies this feeling.  It enlarges it.  If you’re miserable, money will make you even more miserable.

 

It’s the same thing with marriage, or with a job, or with a house, or with kids…   A single person who is miserable and says, “If only I’ll meet my perfect match and get married, then I’ll be happy”, is in for a big surprise.  He’ll be one very miserable married person.  And worse, he’ll make someone else as miserable as he is!  Because the fact is obvious: Happy people make happy marriages.

 

This truth works with everything else, including money.  You have to learn the secrets of true happiness before money comes, so that when it does come, you’ll know how to handle it and become even happier.

 

You need to learn to be happy without lots of money.

 

Assignment: Think of five material things that you really craved for in the past–and you now own.  Examine your feelings.  Are you now satisfied with what you have?  Or do you now desire something new to add or replace what you already have?

 

It was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe who said, Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

 

May your dreams come true,

 

 

Bo Sanchez

 

 

PS. You’ll be blessed by Andy’s incredible story.  (Andy Komisky is one of our special guests at the KerygmaConference 2013.)  Andy was living the homosexual lifestyle when he gave himself to Jesus.  He became a pastor and started Living Waters, a ministry that serves people with same-sex-attraction.  For 30 years, he was doing this work.  Recently, Andy converted to Catholicism.  Don’t miss Andy’s story!  Join me and Andy at the KerygmaConference.  Visit www.KerygmaConference.com or call Tel. (02) 7259999 now!