The Christian & The Material, Part 2 (TMF:2144)

Thursday, July 27, 2023
Peace to Live By: The Christian & The Material, Part 2 (TMF:2144) - Daniel Litton
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       The commonly held belief is that a person should own less and less, and therefore imitate Christ more and more. Again, though, that’s an external appearance that props up one’s own self-righteousness, just in the opposite direction. No, what God wants is an attitude that one has about his or her possessions in that he or she is not too strongly attached to them. What this means is that we can have all that we want (yes, you have that right), we can have all that want provided we hold onto it and view it within ourselves correctly. If we have something we value, we hold onto it with a loose grip in that if something happens to it, we are not devastated. It may bother us at the moment, but that feeling quickly passes. This is because “All that matters is God.” When we really believe that, our attachment to possessions becomes less and less. If we lose something, we’re okay with that. We’re not afraid of someone stealing our possession because we have relinquished any strong attachment to it.