Another Day In The Hood.

Well its another day in the hood and you youth pastor is up to well.........good. I had to clean my office yesterday cause I put a couch in it. I realized that I had way to much junk in my office. You know things I was to lazy to put back where they belonged so I just stacked them on top of each other, articles I printed out like 2 years ago and never read and now have nothing to do with anything, and old sound equipment what's it doing in my office idk it's just there. So anyhow it was a day of cleansing. This got my thinking, today as I sit in my clean office with my new 30yr old couch with a sheet on top of it cause it's so faded and it's been in some one's basement for like the last decade. Why do we have so much stuff? Our Senior Pastor reads a guys blog who is trying to get his life down to 100 essential things. That's awesome what do you have like 2 pairs of socks and would that be 2 things or four idk. Anyways we have a lot of stuff and I think that because we got so much stuff we aren't as thankful to God for what we have. I hope that makes sense I know it does in my head but you could get lost in there even with GPS. But to much stuff, yeah that's right all the ipods, tv's, xbox's, and whatever other crap we have puts us sort of in a thankful coma. Meaning this the easy and more crap we have the less we rely on God for the things we really need. Like love, direction in our lives, and oh yeah the stuff we really need food, shelter, etc. Think about it you know the times in our lives when you really praise God or thank him for that matter it's always something big or a time when you couldn't have possibly done it yourself never the ordinary. The stuff clouds our minds until we realize we have the stuff because God gave us other things like money in order to get the stuff. But perhaps our money would have been best spent elsewhere, on a family whose parents just lost both their jobs, or for a missionary who feeding kids in the downtown area of your city. Whatever it is maybe our stuff is preventing things in our lives from happening including studying the Bible, praying, and just flat out worshiping God. I tell you what after reading this make a list of the 100 things you would keep in your life if that's all you were aloud to have. Then look at the list and evaluate your life from there. I'll do the same and try to have it posted by friday God Bless.