How Much is Enough?
Comments (0) “Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great wealth with turmoil.”
Proverbs 15:16 (NIV)
In the early 1960’s I was in attendance at Seminary training to be a minister of the Gospel. I was engaged to be married and wanted my fiancé to come to the open house of my school to witness the classes and have a meal in our cafeteria. Because I was determined to graduate without debt my budget was very strict. In fact, if I bought my fiancé a meal that day, I would not have the funds to buy one for myself.
I got around my financial dilemma by making up some excuse about not being hungry at that meal time. So I got the one meal and sat and chatted with my guest while she ate her food. I was blissfully happy in spite of my economic poverty because I was with the one I loved. As long as she was present it mattered little whether I ate or not.
Many mature people I speak to, who have been very financially successful in life, will sorrowfully comment that their happiest days were when they were poor and struggling as a young married couple. The accumulation of wealth did not bring them the happiness they dreamed of. Instead of wealth giving the contentment eagerly sought after there came with financial prosperity a sense of longing for the “good old days”, days of poverty.
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