Steemit Engagement Challenge / SEC-S19 / W3 | "Money or Peace?"

A beautiful week to all my friends. This subject is very interesting and somewhat amusing to me. People are mostly hunting for money in their bid to make ends meet, which never does. In the process of doing so, many things suffer, like mentioned depression, mental health degradation, lack of peace in the family and amongst people generally and so many other vices.

This contest provides us with an opportunity to express our view on what gives us more joy in this life.

This question is very pertinent in our society nowadays. The quest for money seems to be overwhelming and forms the focus of many peoples struggle and life.

This quest for money becomes very important that peace is sacrificed on a platter of gold. Many can do anything just to make money even at the detriment and loss of life of another person. We have seen friends and family members become enemies overnight just due to inordinate desire to become rich and make money.
The world is embroiled in financial war and sometimes outright war due to their money-based selfish desires. Husbands and wives are separated and living as room mates in their homes because each person wants to be richer and control their funds by themselves. Children fight over money to the point of killing each

What has happened? Peace is totally eradicated from our relationships, families, communities countries and the entire world.

So without mincing words, peace have been sacrificed for money.

[Never let money get In the way of peace]

An old adage says Do not count your chicks until the eggs are hatched. So spending before earning is same as counting the chicks before the eggs are hatched which could be disastrous. The habit of spending before earnings have thrown so many people into debt as their expectations of incoming earnings are not fulfilled, thus leading them into more poverty, loss of trust from friends, colleagues and family members. This also leads to uncontrolled spending habit and thus leads to expenditure on wants and not needs.

On the otherhand, it is always better to earn, save and then spend. When you earn, you are in a better position to ascertain the limits of your expenditure and still keep for the rainy days. When a person spends within his earnings, it protects his dignity and self esteem. It also enables him to enjoy some good relationship with people hiding from the public eye.

So it is better to spend after earning and savings.

So many people believes that money brings happiness and peace. However, I tend to disagree on money being the major source of happiness. Why? If that is true, rich and wealthy people should be the happiest and most peaceful people on earth. But to the contrary, it is not true. They are the unhappiest group of people. Having being close to some of them, I can come to that conclusion.

So what brings peace and happiness to people? Godly contentment. This comes from obedience to the words of the holy book and carrying out our responsibilities in accord with its directions. No wonder a famous Indian man (Ghandi) once said "If only Christians would live by what is written on the Sermon on the mount by Jesus, there would never be war in earth but peace everywhere"

So Godly contentment and obedience to His words is the primary source of peace and happiness, while money is secondary.

Peace seems to be elusive on earth today all because of selfish interest. So we should not sacrifice money and personal for peace. Striving hard and ensuring not to allow greed to get the better of us.

Everyone should also learn to spend wisely and earn before spending to avoid being kept in the quagmire of debt.

Godly contentment and obedience to the Almighty can give us the greatest joy, peace and happiness we can ever imagine.

I invite @ngoenyi, @fortwis09 and @joymm to participate in this contest.