”Do
not store up for yourselves treasures on earth… store up for yourselves
treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also.” (Matthew
6:19-21 NIV)
Thomas Merton writes in his book, “New
Seeds of Contemplation”; “Our minds are
like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable
their nests get with all that metal in them".
Certainly in our
consumer society it’s all too easy to fall into a behavior in which we
accumulate all sorts of things. It is not wrong to own things, but we can
easily lose our freedom when the desire for things, gadgets, begins to steer
our thinking.
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn said: "When you've
robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.”
The real freedom
lies in being able to abstain - to not be bound to anything other than God. I
really only own that which I can give up. The rest owns me.
Prayer
Jesus, I want to be free
from any desire to ‘possess’. You are my All in All. I want my heart to be
linked only to You.
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