“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” –ThoreauÂ
If I have a weakness in my armor today, it comes in the form of being attracted to “things” I don’t need.
The devil loves to separate us from God through the use of false idols often coming in the form of possessions and material things.
It’s one thing wasting money you have, on things you don’t need; and it is another thing wasting money you don’t have, on things you don’t need. The devil loves to make the rich poor and the poor poorer…he is not selective.
Credit has allowed us to purchase what we cannot afford today, pay it off at twice the price in ten to fifteen years and throw our purchase away or quit using it in two years??!! The devil has got to be laughing all the way to the bank over this behavior.
Why do we buy things we don’t need? More times than not it is about filling an empty space in our soul.
God is there, ready, willing and able but this is an either/or proposition. Being materialistic and following God’s decrees cannot co-exist. Oh, I’m sure they do but you short change the blessings God has for you when you allow materialism to fill the hole in your soul more than God.
How do we stop this behavior? (This is one of those habits that can turn into an addiction if you are not careful.)
Pray for God to fill all of you. Picture what it would look like to not have a bunch of crap you don’t need and always having what you do need in God. Plan your days minus materialistic worthless purchases. Then Practice, practice, practice.
…if you don’t believe in God then fill your hole by helping others (a behavior that is a close second to having God.)
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. –Edwin Way Teale
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
1 John 2:15-17, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love the Father is not in him. For everything in the world–the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does–comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”
