This post is late because I keep changing the subject. The iPad has been in the news lately, so that is what I will discuss. It appears that some consumers regret buying the iPad. They only buy it because it is a fancy gadget that they can show to their friends.
I would like to use this to point out one of the problems that I have with materialism. We fall for marketing techniques and buy things we do not need. When we die, we loose it and it goes away.
The best example of this is the film Citizen Kane. At the beginning of this movie, a man named Charles Foster Kane dies. The film goes through flashbacks of his life and all the stuff that he accumulates. The movie ends when the flashbacks are over and all of Kane’s things are burned.
At the end of life, we really do loose everything. It all gets thrown away or passed on to someone else. With this in mind, we need to know what is important, as well as why we desire material things.
We desire material things because there is some type of hole in us. We try to fill that hole with all types of stuff. This can include sex, relationships, drugs, food and material things. God is the only one who can fill that hole.
He fills that hole when we enter a relationship with him. Man kind used to be in a relationship with him God, but was disconnected from that relationship when the first man and woman sinned. As a result, we are disconnected from our relationship with God. Jesus died on the cross so that we can enter into a relationship with God. Because Jesus died, we enter into an eternity with Him.
In Christ,
James Tuttle
