Ever owned an iPod? iPad? Mac? Any Apple products? Name it. I’m not against a very well-established company name here, but let’s get it straight. You own it and you’re proud.
It’s distressing to know that some of us tends to desire, buy, and eventually own material things as if such are essential to life. What’s even more disappointing is the insatiable nature of human beings. Tendency is, they become willing to give up anything for it — even relationships.
The influence of fast paced technology is honestly palpable enough to get us through the easiest way of life. Sadly, it’s also that palpable to make as a rodent-eating-oatmeal. You don’t want that to happen, do you? There’s nothing wrong with owning things. What’s alarming is the pride that’s running through us when we own such things. We don’t want to ever get the obsolete ones; we always crave for the latests. It makes us look like we were born into a “silver-spoon” family. It makes other people look up to us. It adds up to our “greater” personality. But we end up still miserable. Why? It doesn’t have what we call the ‘eternal value’.
Eternal, from the word itself means perpetual, something that exist outside of time — seemingly endless. Material things do not belong to the category.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21
Pride makes us downcasts. Too much love and attachment on material things takes away our joy and contentment. Let us not stake our hearts to things that would cost us pain and depression. Let us consider God’s treasures — our friends, our loved ones, our life — our heart’s treasures too!
Let us rather build relationships around people who are more worth it than anything. Let’s encourage them to focus their eyes on things with eternal value rather than those that can be stolen and destroyed, then make our lives miserable. Otherwise, a day or two, you’ll end up being traded for an iPod. Ouch, man!
