In this trow away word of ours where everything is disposable I wonder if we really think enough about the purchases we make and the reasons behind them.

The need for “stuff”  and Status within our community achieved  by material possessions  feeds our need to build our egos through the acquisition of more “stuff.” Our homes are filled with all manner of unnecessary things.

We build bigger and bigger houses with more closets and storage space in order to house all the things we buy, much of which we haven’t even paid for yet. Most of our stuff has “planned obsolescence” built into it, making it useless in no time, and so we consign it to the garage or other storage space.

Then we rush out to buy the newest item, garment or gadget and the whole process starts over. This insatiable desire for more, better, and newer stuff is nothing more than covetousness.

The tenth commandment tells us not to fall victim to coveting:

God doesn’t just want to rain on our buying sprees. He knows we will never be happy indulging our materialistic desires, its like a thirst we can never quench  because it is Satan’s trap to keep our focus on ourselves and not on God .