Consumed…

T.V., Internet, iPod, Cell Phone, Work, Money, School, Video Games, Drugs, Alcohol, Addictions. We are consumed.

We live in the day of age where nothing seems to satisfy. We strive to have the best everything. We want more stuff. We covet our neighbor’s stuff. We buy stuff. Sell stuff. Accumulate stuff. We are consumed.

We want and want and want but are always left empty. Why is that?

Materialism is a false freedom.

As a nation of consumerism we have bought into the lie that the more we have the happier we will be. Reality is…the more you make the more you spend. The more you spend the more in debt you go into, continuing the vicious cycle of unhappiness. Our possessions will one day break or go out of style or even a huge bank account can disappear in a blink of an eye. Then everything we are consumed with and find identity in is ……gone.

What are you consumed with? What would your life look like if you were consumed with something that never broke, never went out of style, was always the same.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8