Shallow

-
One must realize that we invest in the worst investment ever when we toil away to make money. Yes, money is the worst investment out there, and that is not because I do not have any, but because what I do have can only buy things of this world. Like fun money at an amusement park, I don't really need a lot because I won't be here long. I figure maybe a few bucks here and there, get something to eat, something drink, sustain myself. Overall, the park will close, and I will go home, why be left with a bunch of worthless pieces of garbage along the way for someone else to pick up.

The turmoil over money is one I am very familiar with and thought would save me one day. Yes, one day a yacht was going to show up at my house and take my family and I away to a different world. One where I would then be content and I would then be generous and then I could be the peaceful father depicted on the TV commercials and sit com shows. A lie I was sold on as the greed for more money leads a man to do things he would not otherwise do. 

This is anticlimactic as what society considers corrupt is a lot more cinematic. Situations like a con man stealing from old people, or a robber and a bank, exchanging meth for stolen goods from Wal-Mart. No, my love of money had limits, but who's to say? Like cancer, when a behavior is left untreated, it can continue to further it's growth. A life of throwing away the best parts in order to what, get money to enjoy the best parts? Its hard in a world that is saturated with asking us what we have to offer to gain something. Little do we realize but the ones who want from us or make us prove it by our wealth are also the ones that take the most. 

When we spend our short amount of time here, where is it best spent? If I have fifty cents, should I buy candy, save it, or invest it into something greater than myself? We all have fifty cents of time and what we choose to spend it on says a lot about us, but more importantly about ourselves when we die. There is nothing worse than leaving an arcade with arcade tokens or a game card full of value. We tell ourselves we will spend it later, but then the arcade shuts down abruptly and "later" never comes. 

We will die, and our souls have a place to go. There is one God and He loves us. He simply asks that we admit the wrong we have done, the wrongs we are already aware of, and accept Christ Jesus as our Savior, the payment for our sins. Yes, we then will have a change within us and seeing this intense love, enough to send God's own Son to death will inspire a love unlike any wealth we could ever experience here. 

Do not chase the career, the school, the money for money's sake. We are all called to do different things in this world, but if money, status, and ego is your answer, then you are sadly lost. If being accused of coveting money above anything authentic offends you, then it's probably you I am talking to. 
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."- Romans 6:23

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Call to Arms.

-
Image
It's too bad... When the principals of America, based on Christianity, are now defiled with corruption. There's not even anyone to blame. There is the devil, he finds this stuff all very fascinating. There are people who have inundated the devil in their life, by way of a justified purpose. There are people who continue to remain on the outskirts, not wanting to choose sides. There are the rights the lefts all of which have their flaws, man and sin and all that. It's when we look to the wrong of the other side more than we spend time on promoting our own that I find fascinating. Offense wins games. To go on the offensive, is to be active in an attempt to score, in an attempt to win of some sort. Defense protects, tries to stop the other team from scoring. However, what side is it that continues to devalue the opposing team completely? What game is that where we stand on the sideline, send out a tweet or make a meme not to promote anything, but to defile the other ...
Read more

The Controversy of Memory.

-
Image
"Making memories!" We say as we are in the moment. As though we are referring to the  current moment, in the future. Looking back at that moment, remembering the moment we are still creating. The moment that may now be tainted with our mindless actions is what we will alter, slightly, to ensure that we in fact, had a good time. "This is fun!" "We are having such a good time!" "Wow, this will be the Christmas we remember for years!" Sorry, the last one a subconscious stab with the snowy weather here lately. A friendly reminder that nostalgia can creep in when we least expect it, and leave in it's wake a reminder that we don't really know what is best until after wards, if ever. "I'll pray for you." What people say to one another, the meaning, questionable. The motive of prayer is each individual's own, however, one that may fall on deaf ears if an unsaved friend is doing it. For Jesus will look our friend ...
Read more

All or......

-
Image
Nothing. An absolute void of thing. (my definition). A thing- person, place, idea even, despite an idea being immeasurable, evening in the behavior being reported from the idea, I cannot "fake" an idea, because the mere mention, or the ability of the mind to grasp and even mimic the idea, therefore makes it real. So, nothing, as it is, void, has to be in relation to something. For example, today as of 10-13-2018, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have nothing in their win column. They have nothing, for there is something that it is in relation to. Nothing, compared to something. It doesn't have to be perfect.  Someone in America says, "I have nothing to eat," more likely than not, "nothing" is in comparison to some idea of "something else." Unsure of what that is. When we think in terms of all (which is a whole other concept itself) or nothing, we tend to get into trouble. For instance, if I am trying to do something great, let's say, rig...
Read more