What Would You Do If You Won the Lottery?
I stopped tonight to get some gas and I noticed various people going in and out of the store. They weren’t carrying anything in their hands that I could see when they exited. Then I saw the lottery sign.
My mind quickly went to a place of me buying a lottery ticket and what I would do if I won. (I didn’t buy a ticket, so I’m not even sure why I let my mind go on that journey. But it went there anyways)
As I was standing in the cold pumping gas, nothing popped into my mind of anything I wanted. If I received a jackpot, nothing came into my mind on things to splurge on.
Nothing.
It hit me, I’m either incredibly blessed and content or I’m already incredibly spoiled and nothing strikes my fancy.
That thought cut me.
I can try to play the humble card and say I’m content. But as I stood in my nice clothes and warm coat, got into my nice SUV with heated seats, and drove away to a nice warm home in a nice subdivision – does any of that seem like I’m scrapping the bottom of contentment?
Am I really being content when I already have everything I want?
Am I really being humble when I truly have never felt true sacrifice?
Am I really faithful when I have never tasted what it means to have faith in what tomorrow holds?
I can say in my good spirited soul as I was driving away from the gas station and thinking of what I would do if I hit the jackpot – I started thinking of all the people I would give the money too. All the friends and family I could help out. All the charities that wouldn’t need to beg. All the wells in Africa that could be dug. All the human trafficking lives I could save. All the good that I could do.
But why does not hitting the jackpot stop that goodwill toward men attitude in me. Because sadly, I’m selfish. I pour into my barrel before I pass out the spoon size leftovers overflowing from my well to others.
We are at a crossroads. I have heard many times that true character is doing things when no one is watching.
What are you doing?
Are you still dreaming about winning the lottery? Or are you seeing what you have now as already hitting one?
Sadly, I’ve hit the jackpot multiple times. I just wonder if my character shows it?
Peace
