Many believe that success is the foundation of a happy life. Success is wealth, wealth is happiness; therefore, success is happiness.
Luke 12:16-20 “Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
A railroad magnate was dying. Addressing his son who stood by his bedside, the dying man said, “Son, take hold of my hand,” which he did. Then the man said, “My son you are holding the hand of the man who has made the greatest failure of any man that ever lived.” “But,” said the son, “Father, why do you speak thus? You are worth a million dollars. You are president of the railroad. You number your friends by the thousands. Your word is as good as your bond. Why speak thus?” The poor man looked up and said, “It is like this. I have lived for time and not for eternity. I have made no preparation for the next world. I must leave all here. It is all dark.” Thus he passed to the unknown world. He was right “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? – By William Moses Tidwell, “Effective Illustrations.”
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