Dear friend,
Your desire for more keeps leaving you more and more empty. You fill the storehouses, but your heart is never content. Your hunger for more things is a manifestation of your humanity. We are made to desire and hunger something. In fact, you become like what you hunger and desire. Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing inherently wrong with consuming. We consume to survive, to enhance our lives and for other reasons but consuming for its own sake is disastrous. Another Amazon purchase, another method, another toy, another, another. It never ends, and your hunger never ceases.
When the Apostle Paul says to store up your treasures in heaven, he was giving us a principle for how to consume properly. Heaven’s storage does not have an expiration date; nothing loses its freshness. So, please consume. But consume knowingly. It’s possible that what your heart desires is attention, affirmation, and more, but those actions will only shape your hunger for the wrong things. Only Christ can fulfill our deepest longings. As Augustine writes: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” You may need to re-examine your budget, habits, and desires. You need to seek that heavenly city more than the possessions of earth.
Yours truly,
Pastor Brito
