Much of marketing and entertainment is aimed at getting us to believe we are less than we need to be. We don’t have enough stuff to satisfy our souls. We don’t look good enough for the people we need to please. We don’t have the latest and greatest so we are incomplete. We don’t have a big enough house and it’s not in the right part of town. Our car needs upgrading. We know for sure our phone does. And our flat screen TV.
Genesis 3:6 “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.”
It’s the same old ploy that has been used against people from our beginning. Hey, look! There’s something over there you don’t have. But, wow! You sure need it. See how nice it looks? It’s shiny and pretty and cool and necessary for fulfillment. Not only that, it is desirable. I see it. I like it. I want it. I need it. I have to have it or I will die. It will complete me.
Oh, but it isn’t any good for me. It will make me rely on it and other things more than I do on God. That’s OK. I am pursuing the American dream—happiness; and of course, that means going after happiness my way.
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