I have never really bought a lottery ticket. Buying a lottery ticket has been on my list of New Year's Resolutions the past few years and I have never gotten around to it. It is on the list because it feels like a crazy risky thing to do, because lottery money goes in with taxes so it helps the state, and because I have never bought one and it is something new I can do. But, as I said, I just haven't done it yet. I think I might be up to buying 4 or 5 tickets by now to meet all the unmet resolutions.
The thing about the lottery, in what ever amount one might win, I don't want to win. I think unless the amount was very small, like $50 or something, it might very possibly ruin my life. I occasionally watch the lottery dream home show and have read articles about lottery winners and they don't seem all that happy with their winnings.
Everybody thinks that they would be different. I suppose that I hope that I might be different if I won the lottery. I would want to do good with the money. But, what is the greatest good that I could do? For me that is a tough decision. I suppose it would matter how much money was involved. One million as opposed to 50 million might make a difference.
I don't know what I would do if I won the lottery. The odds are not in my favor, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. But, maybe this year I will buy a couple of tickets. It feels like I would be living dangerously, but I have lived through a pandemic, so perhaps the odds are in my favor. (Which means to me that I wouldn't win the lottery and I wouldn't have to figure out what to do with the money. LOL)
I started thinking about this lottery thing because Judas was motivated by greed. Greed is a slippery slope. Once money starts to be important, it is hard to put down that impulse. I wonder what Judas would have done if he had won the lottery? Or more to the point, what would Jesus do withlottery winnings?
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