There is a choice you must make—Money Or God!
Today most of us are caught up chasing the all mighty dollar and it is a choice!
Wheather it is the latest and greatest new car to come out of the new iphone or ipod, it just doesn't end. The other night I was watching our local news and on Thanksgiving night, people began lining up early in the day to get in line for the opening of the doors of the great lure of the bargin at the local mall in South Portland.
People were interviewed and some had been there for 3 days camping out to be first in line to grab the "Deals" to get a new laptop at a very good price.
These people totally missed Thanksgiving and instead of being thankful for what they have and those in their lives, they we more concerned about what they can buy. And many of them professed on T.V. that they were not their to shop for others, but to BUY FOR THEMSELVES…
Continuing to watch the next day they showed this mall somewhere in the country where 1000's and 1000's of people where herding outside the mall waiting for the doors to open. As the doors flew open people rushed the doors, pushing and shoving each other and running into the stores to gobble up not a thanksgiving dinner, but STUFF…Not to be thankful for loved ones in their lives, but thankful that the laptop was only $295.00 and they were going to fill their empty hearts and minds with stuff and think that that is going to satisfy them.
It was sad to watch as we stumble into the stores to gobble up and grab what the media tells us will satisfy us. We have become a self centered and selfish world. Very Sad indeed. None of it will hold satisfaction in your life, it will only serve to prolong your unfulfilled desires, until the "Next Deal" comes along. Then you will toss out that 6 month old cell phone because now there is one that is way better than that old useless cellphone you got for Christmas.
Jesus said it well in Matthew 6:24 "No one can server two master, Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot server both God and Money."
Who Do you Serve? Money Or God?
Today, it is apparent that God has been tossed aside and we will watch this holiday season unfold as a time to get the goods instead of getting the goodness that Jesus came to give us— Eternal life !
God Help Us All!
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