The odds are stacked and packed against winning the lottery. You might win a little bit of seed money here and there, enough get you hooked into the deceptive hope of hundreds of millions of dollars. However, if you don’t grasp the gigantic odds against winning such a cash out on life, you need to shut down your emotional lust for free, sudden, and extreme wealth and rationally study statistics.
I bet no money on the lottery. If I ever win the big blast of a billion bucks (before taxes), I’ll thank the person who bought the ticket and put my name on it.
Then I’ll pay the taxes and probably complain that one government takes a third of the free wealth that another government gave me. I’d like to think that I’d give the rest away to worthy causes, but I’d sure be tempted to spend a lot of it lavishly on myself and hoard and invest the rest.
“The love of money is the root of all evil.” I struggle not to not get lovingly attached to a little money, so I’m glad I don’t have to be tempted and distracted by a Lotto grand prize!
Decades ago, I found “the pearl of great price” — the kingdom/government of God over my heart and life and the free forgiveness and healing of Christ’s mercy and grace. Nothing else I could ever win can compare to “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
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