Truth In Christian Magnets
I don’t like cliches, and I really don’t like cheesy sayings that we have all heard a million times, but sometimes there is a reason some “sayings” have stuck around. “Money can’t buy happiness.” That’s one.
It’s not just happiness that money can’t buy. Money can’t fill your house with people that love you and are waiting for you when you get home from work. Money can’t keep a husband from visiting his girlfriend before coming home to you and the kids. Money can’t keep a daughter feeling like a princess when you have lost interest. Money can’t keep a marriage together, or keep kids from wanting a dad. Money can’t stop you from feeling alone at the end of the day when all the noises and distractions have been turned off.
The, now, single mother of three won’t be “just fine”, once the divorce is final because she has a padded bank account. The recently retired man won’t feel less alone after years of working for a comfortable future. There are more important things than things.
I know we have all heard it a thousand times, but sometimes it needs to be mentioned again.
Always nice to have a good reminder.
Hippie communist.
Brant
I know how much you get “paid” and so I’m sure you can’t know what money can actually buy.
Though your paycheck won’t get you happiness, it will get you anything from Taco Bell’s menu. That’s pretty close.
Wise words.
yes I believe that everyone in america has heard this several times, but yet we still try to find happiness in money, so it is good to remind the masses every once in a while.
so true. you’re right…this cliche is one that doesn’t wear old on me either.
I’m studying Paul right now in Acts. (Acts 16:16-24) Paul and Silas are in Phillipi and they angered some men by causing a demon to leave a girl whom these men had been using to make money off her psychic abilities. This time Paul was not persecuted for preaching the gospel, he was being beaten because he was causing these men to loose their scheme of making money. The hold that money had over these men, caused them to be angry enough to take them, accuse them, and have them severley beaten and imprisoned.
It’s amazing to me the power money holds over people. It causes women to leave their men because they want someone who has more money. It causes people to be deceitful and lie to get it. It is the driving force behind most people, They think if they have more it will make them happy.
You are right, money doesn’t buy happiness.
That’s why I like the verse,
“…give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.” (or taco bell, whichever version you are reading…) Proverbs 30:8
A gathering of theologians said, “I don’t care to much for money,Money can’t buy me love.”, The Beatles