Would You For 10 Million Dollars?

“All that is not eternal [is] too short, [and] all that is not infinite [is] too small.”

I was talking with my buddy Laurie about her dating life and money. You see, she was about to date a millionaire. She was very turned off by the idea of his wealth. Not that she has taken a vow of poverty, she just thinks there are way more important things in life than money. I believe it is right up there with oxygen- without it we would not have Temples or missions or roof over our heads. In reading a church article I saw this interesting section. My answers I hope would be obvious. "The results of a survey conducted by a reputable organization and reported in a national magazine. The survey was entitled, “Would You, for Ten Million Dollars?” Let me ask you the same questions which were asked in the survey:
*For 10 million dollars in cash, would you leave your family permanently?
*Would you marry someone you didn’t love?
* Would you give up all your friends permanently?
* Would you serve a year’s jail term on a framed charge?
* Would you take off your clothes in public?
* Would you take a dangerous job in which you had a 1-in-10 chance of losing your life?
* Would you become a beggar for a year?
Of the people polled, 1 percent would leave their families, 10 percent would marry lovelessly, 11 percent would give up friends, 12 percent would undress in public, 13 percent would go to jail for a year, 14 percent would take the risky job, and 21 percent would beg for a year.
Where money, rather than morality, dictates one’s actions, one is inclined away from God. Turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, vanished ambitions, unfulfilled expectations, crushed hopes, and ruined lives.

See James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth: What People Really Believe About Everything That Really Matters (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991), 65–66.