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ITV's Daybreak had a revealing piece this morning on Michael Carroll, who won over £9 million on the National Lottery in 2002, spent it all, and found he was miserable and suspicious.
Amazing to find at the end that he still buys lottery tickets: I’m trying to come up with an answer as to what’s going on in his mind that leads him to chase an idol he’s discovered is worthless.
Maybe Tim Keller’s insight in Counterfeit Gods sheds some light. He's talking about a famous US millionaire and writes: “[he] knew money was an idol in his heart, but he didn’t know how to root it out. It can’t be removed, only replaced. It must be supplanted by the one who, though rich, became poor, so that we might truly be rich.
“When you see Jesus dying to make you his treasure, that will make him yours.”
Carl is Editorial Director at The Good Book Company and is a member of Grace Church Worcester Park, London. He is the best-selling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as series editor of the God's Word for You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.
