For those of you that didn’t know Amazon came out with an entire new line of kindles today. For more information on what they are go to the amazon website. Out of curiosity I went to the website to see what the “family” had to offer. Of course they were bigger and better than before, better resolution, HD, you know the works.
Then something disturbing happened.
“I need one of these.”
I love my Kindle Touch and I have had it maybe a year, maybe. So I was a bit disturbed by this new desire to buy a new kindle. I logically thought like many of us did that I could sell the one I had and use it to buy the new one and so I wouldn’t really lose much money in the process.
Then I thought this is why technology changes every year because we keep buying and buying and buying the latest and the greatest because it never stops. There is always going to be the next ‘thing.’
But that is just what they are.
Things.
They give nothing to our soul. We as human beings have this practice of putting things in our lives hoping they will fulfill the hole in our heart, but they won’t. They can’t because they have no power except for the power that we give them.
Everything that we need is in Christ’s love and grace and his willingness to die for us even though we didn’t deserve it. It’s like the following:
If you could have a million dollars or friends which would you desire first? Which should you desire first?
Money and things can’t give you happiness or eternal life because they aren’t anything but paper and resources that are used to make them. The only power they have is the power we give them.
So, what power are you giving the latest and greatest in your life?
Christ gave you the ultimate gift, himself. He extended His Love and Grace.
What will you do with it?