WINNING THE LOTTERY
Today's reading: Proverbs 19

"Wealth makes many 'friends'; poverty drives them away." Proverbs 19:4 NLT

If I were to win the lottery...

Which would entail me purchasing a lottery ticket.

Which would require me to believe one should waste one's hard earned money on such as that.

Which would require me having will power to purchase only one, not 10,000, if I ever started.

Anyway...

If I were to win the lottery, I'd immediately come into possession of a boat-load of money and a whole new assortment of friends!

They'd come out of the woodwork.

Old acquaintances from high school...

Distant relatives I've not seen in years, if ever...

Close relatives who have chosen not to participate in our lives, or allow us into theirs...

Neighbors who occasionally wave as they tear past our house now stopping for a chat in the front yard swing...

Who ever it might be, would be drawn now to me due to my increase in bank account.

But where are they now?

I am rich...

I am holding keys to an inheritance...

I am a princess of the greatest King of all...

I hold power that can close lions' mouths, part the sea, walk me in and out of the flames, allow me to endure beatings and death.

I am loaded! I have a heavenly storehouse of wealth! I will live forever!

So where are those 'friends' that are drawn to wealth? They stay an arm's length away when I begin talking about my 'fortune', my Inheritance, my mansion.

They stay away for now, but God is at work--He will give them ears to hear, and one day--one day, they will accept His gift and be rich, too.