By Peter Kennedy
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” – 1 Timothy 6:10
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel “Catch-22”, which is a satire on war and bureaucracy.
He once was at a party at the upscale community of the Hamptons on Long Island in New York.
A guy came over to him and pointed at a young, 25-year-old standing at the party who worked for a big hedge fund. Heller’s “friend,” said to him, “see that guy over there? He made more money last year than you will ever make with all of your books combined.”
Joseph Heller said, “Maybe so. But I have one thing that man will never have.”
His friend was skeptical. “Oh yeah, what?”
Heller said, “Enough.”
Money is not an end in itself; we should never love money. Today in prayer, ask the Lord how to best use all that He has given you and seek to be a good steward.
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” – Benjamin Franklin
God’s Word: “not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.” – 1 Timothy 3:3
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