Why Money Can't Buy Happiness By Ray Subs At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

When you were growing up, do you remember your parents complaining about money? It seems like there’s never enough of it to go around, spawning the phrase, “Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure helps.” It’s true that a lack of money can lead to a dissatisfaction with your daily life, but that dissatisfaction is the result of a lack of happiness. It’s a result, not a reason.

What does it mean to be happy? Most people will describe happiness as something they have and unhappiness as what they feel when something is missing. It’s the perfect definition, but the way the world today interprets that definition takes away the much deeper meaning behind it. They look at the fact that they are missing something and think, “I have to obtain it.” Then they work hard for the money they need to build their bank accounts and buy that yacht they’ve been dreaming of, that house they’ve been looking at or take that vacation they’ve been planning.

They don’t truly believe that money can’t buy happiness.

The thing is, happiness isn’t something you can buy. Money truly can’t buy happiness, because true, soul deep happiness can be yours for the low, low price of-nothing. True happiness is free! How is that possible? Because Jesus Christ made it available to us at no cost to ourselves the minute he died on that cross.

We as people were never meant for this earth, an earth filled with violence, greed and hate. We were intended for paradise, a paradise spent sitting at the right hand of God and having everything we ever dreamed of at our fingertips. Most importantly, we were meant for peace-the peace that comes from knowing that Jesus Christ is lighting up the dark corners of our soul.

Christ said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the light.” Money can’t buy happiness. It can only buy a fleeting moment of satisfaction that fades when the novelty is gone. Jesus Christ is the way to true happiness. He is the truth in the lies that society teaches us about happiness, and he is the light in our angry, hurting hearts that takes away all of our pain and offers us the respite of a true, soul deep peace that can’t be disturbed-regardless of whether we’re millionaires or living on Ramen and water.

Money can’t buy happiness. Unhappiness is a result of something we’re missing, but it’s not something that can be found in any store, on the back of any warehouse truck or even in the pews. It’s something we find when we close our eyes, open our hearts and ask the God of Jacob to reach down and touch our lives, blessing us with eternal happiness and the opportunity to spend the rest of our lives in paradise.

Money can’t buy happiness, because it’s never cost us a thing. In fact, it wants to give us something rather than take it away-the happiness, peace and joy that we’ve spent our whole lives searching for.

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