I abominate commercials for the lottery. Though there are thousands of variations of such ads, they all play off a common theme: Money brings joy. One recent ad showed people practicing the happy dance they would do when they found out they had won millions of dollars. Another had people describing the things they would buy for themselves when they finally came into great wealth. In one way or another, all these commercials express the same idea: more money equals more happiness.
Of course there really is some connection between money and joy. Christians can sometimes speak as if more money only ever brings more difficulties, but that tends to be expressed by people who have never struggled with true poverty. There really is joy to be had in the kinds of possessions and experiences that money can earn us. “Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving…” Agur said it well when he prayed, “give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ or lest I
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