Consumerism

Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.  Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don’t mean that your help didn’t mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles. Phillipians 4:11-13

We live In a fast paced, get it now society. If we want something we are not encouraged to save our money and then purchase it. No, we are told to go get it now. Put it on a credit card and just make payments. This is just a small aspect of consumerism but it tells the story. We have brought this same mindset into the church, the body of Christ, and it is destroying the church from within. 

Learning to be content with thanksgiving is a rare trait today; however, being happy with what we have been given and looking at our circumstances as a gift from God brings about something that I see very little of today in the church and outside the church. That is Joy! Being happy no matter the circumstance or situation. Joy brings peace. 

Pastor Patrick