Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts on a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you. (James 5:1-6, NRSV)
Have you worked hard to get ahead?
Do you have a lot of nice stuff and yet still don’t seem to have that void inside of you filled?
We try to keep up with the Jones and have all the best things, the newest gadgets, the latest technology, and what does it get us?
A pile of garbage that rots and needs to be taken out…
You see no amount of stuff will ever fill the void we feel in our lives. Stuff is not going to make us happy and in the end will only cause more strife and anguish.
We need to be looking out for the people in our lives, the ones that God put there for us to notice and to be with. We need to not be worried about getting what we want, but doing what God has called us and placed us to do.
So stop keeping up, and start walking with God, filling the void and being salt and light!
aSacredRebel 