As far back as I can remember, we, as people have constantly been enticed into buying things because of advertising. Some executive in some big office building comes up with a one-liner and it makes us run out and buy something we possibly need (or think we do). The minute we get said item home, it starts to lose its value. No matter what it is! If it is food, we eat it, and then it’s gone. If it is a product, from the time you get it out of the box, it begins the process of wearing out (if it works at all).
I saw a new ad on television recently – it was for a store that sells stuff for the house, you know, like decorations. Decorations are something that we like, and like to look at, but certainly they are not included in the necessities of life category, The ad showed happy, giggling people dancing around with things they were going to buy. The narrator of the ad proceeds to tell us that the best things in life can be found there, and if you find them you should make yourself happy and purchase them. The ad doesn’t go into the lives of these people and tell you that the majority of them are up to their eyeballs already in credit card debt. (Of course, after that ad one comes out touting a new credit card to get out of debt with.)
I do not know about you, but I cannot for the life of me equate how anyone with any integrity could espouse the theory that buying stuff will make you happy and these things are the best things in life.
Give me a break people. We have mass school shootings, people rioting so for the “right” to kill the unborn, looting and burning to get stuff because you are “entitled” to them. We have all this mass confusion going on and we are trying to compensate with things, calling them the “best things in life.”
I have written about common sense before, but there seems to be less and less of it on a daily basis. I guess, once that little stone starts rolling downhill, it quickly becomes an avalanche.
Common sense tells us that guns do not kill people – evil people do. Common sense tells us that teach someone to fish, he can feed his family for a lifetime; but if you just give him everything he wants, pretty soon he will not be satisfied with that, he will only expect to be given more. Common sense tells us that if righteous people are in authority, righteous people rejoice; when wicked people are in charge, then the people start to moan (even the people with no common sense who supported them to begin with).
We, in this country, are in a difficult situation right now. The sanity of our leaders are in question. If we are trying to blind ourselves so much that to take our mind off of the situation, and tell ourselves that buying decorations will make us happy because they are the best things in life, then we really are, as a people, hiding our heads in the sand while we let insane people take everything over.
All I can say is, Lord, come quickly!
“Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men can turn away wrath.”
“If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.”
“The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.”
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
“If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”
Proverbs 29:8-12
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” John 2:15
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