The answer to that is “always having what you want.” Nothing
ruins a person more than always having their own way and owning tons of gadgets
and living in luxury. This life is not
about gaining more and more. As the bible says “A man’s worth does not consist
in the number of things he owns.” In the last few years young people have
flooded into Britain to follow their dream of wealth, health and happiness, but
what has this done to their homelands.
Doesn’t the place of their birth need their talents there to build up
their own country. I met a young man
from Hungary in the week. He was in a
phone shop where I bought a cover for my new phone (yes I am tempted by gadgets
too.) He was a smart young man and very
pleasant, but what is the effect on Hungary of the loss of people like this to
his homeland. What I am really trying to say is that all that chasing after
wealth and a “good” time is not what life is about. Now is the time to search after God and that
can’t be done at the same time as putting wealth as your top priority. God is
the One who should hold our attention. A
big problem today is that there are so many “Christian churches” which are
blurring what true Christianity is about.
Jesus should hold the central place as He is the only one who can bring
us into God’s favour. Nothing we can do
will ever achieve this, as God expects total perfection from each one of
us. That can only be given to us by the
sinless Son of God. Trust Him and follow
Him and eternity will be secure and then who cares about the false prosperity
the world offers us.
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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