Nathan's Hot Gas

I have a problem.  When I go to a buffet restaurant I always put more on my plate than I am capable of eating.  I just can not help myself.  I look down on the buffet line and see the mountain of goodness.  Calories upon calories; fat upon fat.  As I stand there in front of the buffet line looking at the mounds of food, almost on queue my stomach begins to gripe.  As my eyes believe I can take it all in, my stomach knows there is no need for me to stand in front of a buffet line because it knows I am only coveting what I can not have. 

Ecclesiastes 6:9 speaks to this.  Even though all the riches in the world might be pleasing to the eye, the soul know that those riches are futile and gives those riches no worth.  But as convicting as that is, how often do I still desire what I do not need.  Not necessarily what I can not get, but what I do not need is the issue.  In this materialistic culture we live, people can not get enough things to make them happy.  I unfortunately admit this same desire, but the question remains: do I continue in my discipline  for Christ, or do I give in?

~ by nathansmith on October 29, 2009.