And what would I do with the remaining $258,500,000? After I payoff my bills, which is a drop in the bucket from this money, why do I even want all of this money? So I can go out and buy everything I want? No more having to work or save, or pray…just go out and buy it, whatever it is. Maybe give it all away. That would be a full-time job in and of itself. Figuring out who would use it for good and not for evil.
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I realize that it all boils down to my greed and the greed of everyone who I could visit this curse on. It’s enough to destroy some. Now, my stomach is getting queasy and I am earnestly praying that I don’t win. I decide instead to heed the advice that Paul gave to Timothy when he said, “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. But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.” (1 Timothy 6:10,11)
Michele Clark Jenkins, co-founder of Sisters in Faith, is the senior director of the consulting group for Griffin & Strong, PC., Attorneys & Public Policy Consultants. She was co-creator of Real: The Complete New Testament Biblezine, writer/editor of the Children of Color Storybook Bible, and contributed to the Women of Color Devotional Bible and Wisdom and Grace Devotional Bible. She is also the author of She Speaks: Wisdom from the Women of the Bible to the Modern Black Woman, in stores January 15, 2013 (Thomas Nelson).
What Would I Do With $550 Million? was originally published on elev8.com
