Jim Carrey said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
Storage facilities that guard the stuff we can’t squeeze into our garages. Garages,meant for cars filled to the rafters with junk we don’t need.
Jesus said to 35 pairs of preachers, “Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money, neither have two coats apiece.”
Have you ever read an obituary that talks about all the stuff the deceased owned. His or her accomplishments, perhaps, and mention of his family. But accumulated possessions?
The “dash” life, the life that lies between John Doe Born such-and-such date, then dash, then date of death. That life, that dash life is all we have on this earth.
Jesus said,”What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself?
Underneath that mound of stuff, buried under the Jet Ski and the Lawn trimmer. Barely breathing under the pile of stuff is our soul, your soul, my soul, yearning to break free of the material chains that enslave us.
Buy the new car so we don’t have to pay for repairs on the old car. Buy the insurance and the gas and oil and registration and tax on the car so we can be legal. Buy a new outfit so we look good when we pull into the employee parking lot in the new car. Buy a pair of new shoes, a makeover, new hair style so we look good in the car that we bought.
How about, keep the old car. How about scheduling a date with one of the kids, helping a neighbor paint his fence, volunteer at the Rescue Mission?
How about people, friends, family. How about saying no to stuff.
