Beware the tactics of those selling to us. They present us with so many special offers. All these schemes are to encourage us to buy
more than we need or really want. They
are playing on our greed, our desire for things. When we are offered a net full
of oranges and then the chance to have another net free, the seller is only
making this offer because he knows he will have to throw away the second net if
you don’t take it, as he has overstocked.
You will find it hard to eat all those oranges before they go off. Of
course, if you have a large family buy one get one free works in your favour. Everyone
wants your money and will do anything to get it from you. Jesus told us that our worth doesn’t depend
on the things we possess. He also told
us not to worry about our food or clothes.
He always promises daily bread, so really only those who live in
isolated areas or kept in by snow should stock up their cupboards. Our Father
knows what we need and when we will need it.
We are not to store up treasure on earth but in heaven. The shops know how to press our greed button
and we need to resist their tactics.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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