Beware! Don’t always be wishing for what you don’t have. For real life and real living are not related to how rich we are.
- Luke 12:15 (TLB)
I have often asked my friends with children how old their kids were when they let them have cell phones.
It’s an odd question and it is usually followed up with a reason why that age was chosen, even I justify why we gave our youngest a phone 4 years earlier than his siblings.
I hear my granddaughter begging her mom for something because all her friends have one, and I am reminded of this verse, and our own human need for “stuff”.
I’m sure that we have all felt that if we could just have a little more of something, we’d be happy – like a little nicer house or a little newer car.
Sometimes it feels that our happiness in linked to our possessions, and we need to get out of that mindset sooner rather than later.
Remember that God will provide us with everything we need, and what we have is enough right now.
When Israel left Egypt, God provided manna every day, more than enough to feed everyone, and He told the people to gather only what they needed for that day, to trust that He would provide.
In the parable of the rich fool, Jesus gives two brothers fighting over their inheritance a strong warning about thinking that their possessions can give their life worth and ultimate value.
The New King James version of this verse reads: And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
Greed grips our hearts when we place material things (or anything) in the place of God and His ultimate approval and blessings in our life.
Don’t be greedy, nice things are nice, but they are just things.
Things go away, God Is forever.
Life doesn’t come down to what you own, but how you use it in glorifying God.
All our “stuff” won’t matter the day we meet our Savior face to face.
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