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Originally Posted by Jeremy
Good joke! I bet Jesus would be cracking up if it weren't fr all the people going without.
I have spent a little under 300 on a suit, $40 on a tie, $50 on a shirt, and about a hundred on shoes.
During the most wealthy period of my life, I was also very committed to church, and I bought all generic or clearance stuff and never spent like I did when I was a kid and not in church.
When I was fully committed to God, I would have never spent even that much money on clothes. Now I am really starting not to care. "If you got it, flaunt it" I guess. I spent a lot of time living for other people. Now I think I am going to spend time and money on my wife and I.
Prudence is apparently not a christian principle. I am not even sure I am a Christian anymore, so why should I care anyway, right?
I don't know why I get so upset about this sort of thing, but for some reason it eats my lunch to see people who say they are followers of Jesus talk about squandering money on items they could obtain for half the cost. Maybe it is just envy, but it does not seem like it since I have pretty well off at times past (going through a bit of a rough spot right now) and still did not choose to live like that.
Maybe it is just because growing up poor, I was very obsessed with clothes and dressing nice once I started making money, and that became almost a god in my life. I realized, I could put great looks together at a fraction of the cost, and gave it up. For a lot of years, I would not ever wear a name brand or logo of any kind.
I guess looking at my life now, I still blow money in other ways like video games (though I almost always buy used and cheap) and I really want to replace my current phone (which I paid 400 bucks for to avoid getting locked in to another contract, but have had for four years) with an iPhone (which I refused to buy for $400, but would go for at $200) so I guess we all have our areas to work on.
Sometimes I really don't know if anyone is going to make it.
*Leaves depressed*
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"Sometimes I really don't know if anyone is going to make it."
Any reasonable person who considers the lives of even good Christians in the light of the Sermon on the Mount will come to the same conclusion.
I have found a solution: Jesus Christ
If He is not sufficient for our salvation, we are all lost and without hope, but He is and we have hope of salvation.
I very seldom buy new, but have occasionally.
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