BUSINESSDAY.COM reports that in August, 2003, a study was released revealing that money can't buy happiness.
Beginning in 1975, University of Southern California researcher Richard Easterlin surveyed 1500 persons annually and found that...
"Many people are under the illusion that the more money we make, the happier we'll be. We put all of our resources into making money at the expense of our family and our health…The problem is we don't realize that our material wants increase with the amount of money we make."
The study discovered happiness was related to quality time with loved ones, good health, being friendly, having an optimistic outlook, exercising self-control, and possessing a deep sense of ethics.
This is why Paul said, "But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that." (1 Timothy 6:8)
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Good word, I thought I would provide some crucial parts of the chapter of Timothy you quoted.
In order to live a Godly life, we must live a life of contentment.
We must learn to live by need and not by want.
A great example of what happens when you live by want, is our Country in the credit crisis. People have lived and spent by the WANT rather than by need. As the Bible says this will lead to destruction. an this is the termoil we are going through.
1 Timothy 6 6-14
6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
8But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
9People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Paul's Charge to Timothy
11But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
13In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you
14to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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