Lailah Gifty AkitaMoney can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.
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The idea that money can cloud your vision is quite true. The truth is that sometimes having money does not make you happy. People who are rich often find themselves in debt or even living in poverty. They often do not find the happiness they were expecting to find with money.
When times get tough, rich people who haven’t learned about life can become very bitter and vengeful. This bitterness can also turn them into people who seek to take away what others have, including their happiness and peace of mind. Most people fail to understand the true definition of happiness until they have been stripped of all their possessions and left with nothing to their name but a few clothes on their back and a roof over their heads. It is only then that they realize how important a little piece of land, a few books, or even an old picture can be to someone else’s happiness. In the Bible, Jesus said: “You cannot serve God and mammon [money] at the same time.” In other words, people who are rich will never be truly happy unless they learn the true meaning of happiness from God and stop chasing after riches for themselves.
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
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