Want Creators

 

I Timothy 6:6-10

What is your problem?  It may be the same as mine, too many “want creators” and they are everywhere.  They come in the mail, on TV, over radio, at the grocery store, at all shopping malls, and they even pop-up on my computer screen.  They are everywhere, their goal is not contentment, no, the “want creators” goal is to make you feel the need for whatever, and you have learned that in acquiring that want, no matter what it is, a new car, boat, shoes, dress, pet, you have an instantaneous satisfaction.  Yet we have all learned that the new car gets dinged or the new shoes are not as cool with that dress or suit, and it matters not what the “want creators” promised, it’s value soon fades away and you find the need to acquire more stuff. 

This is my observation, it has little to do with your income, it’s common to both rich and poor and all of us in the middle, the “want creators” has our number, and often we let them put value on things that imply our value, our worth, and that is just not true.  Could our problem be that we have let stuff, stuff that rusts, and fades, get dings, needs painting, or dies, in the case of a pet; have we let this stuff establish our worth? 

If so, please read 1 Timothy 6:6-10, God knows all about our flesh, and he knows all about a world system that tells you that “Value is tied to possessions” and that is why the Creator gave us the handbook on living life on planet earth.  The Bible is no different in this regard to any other manufactures instruction sheet, it’s value is not in reading it, but in doing what the manufacturer has said in it’s instruction.   So what has He said; “Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.  But if we have food and clothing with these we will be content.  But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare that plunge people into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.  It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”

The one that Jesus warned us about in John 10:10, is the greatest “want creator” of them all and Jesus said that is the dude’s specialty, to make you believe that money or stuff equals the real you, and once you have bought into that lie, it becomes a love for more, and more, and still more.   But the author of the manufactures handbook, on living life on planet earth, gave clear instructions: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  (Matthew 6:19-21)  If we would believe the promise that Jesus made in John 10:10, we would not be so easily taken captive by the “want creators.”  This morning, my eyes went to Matthew 6:25, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.  Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”   How you answer Jesus’ question, reflects how you live life!

Form the Back Porch,

Bob Rice