Hindsight

Our culture really does teach life consists of the things we acquire.  It is heard in blaring volume from billboards, televisions, radios and high gloss magazine layouts.

We are promised that real happiness comes from a purchase, we try to buy it through buying the newest, brightest and best.

It’s like a man who rides a donkey carrying a long stick.  On the end of that stick there hangs a carrot on a string.  The carrot promises far more than it is able to deliver.  The donkey trudges on and on believing that soon he’ll be chomping on a juicy reward only to find his hunger growing with each step.

Living for acquisition is like the fly who looks down and says, “My dinner!”  Only to hear the Venus Fly Trap say, “MY DINNER!”

Years ago Apple Computer created the iPhone, I recently bought an iPhone 4s.  The next week they brought out the iPhone 5. People stand in line with perfectly good iPhone’s to get the newest.  Why?  The answers vary but they really boil down to one thing, a new toy.

Jesus parable of the “Rich man” tells us if we believe in Jesus Christ we’ll invest in His Kingdom work.  If we believe in the American dream we’ll invest in that Kingdom.  Jesus forces us to make an intelligent choice.  

You can’t purchase eternal life, but our purchases reveal our gratefulness for eternal life.