In the Driver's Seat -- Part 4
I asked what drives your life. Rick Warren in The Purpose-Driven Life (https://www.churchsource.com/rickwarren) suggests four drivers that often distract us from what really should be driving our lives. Yesterday it was fear. Today:
Materialism -- Some are led by a desire to acquire. So what? If I have many possessions won't that make me happy, feel important and more secure?
Nope.
"Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because these things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions." Second, possessions don't make us more important. "Self-worth and net-worth are not the same." And third -- more secure? Material things can be lost by theft, flood, fire, or sometimes divorce. (You know if I'm talking to you.)
"Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you -- your relationship with God." God is the way to sobriety!
Materialism -- Some are led by a desire to acquire. So what? If I have many possessions won't that make me happy, feel important and more secure?Nope.
"Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because these things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions." Second, possessions don't make us more important. "Self-worth and net-worth are not the same." And third -- more secure? Material things can be lost by theft, flood, fire, or sometimes divorce. (You know if I'm talking to you.)
"Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you -- your relationship with God." God is the way to sobriety!
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