When was the last time you moved? Relocated from one home to another? Were you amazed at how much "junk" you'd accumulated?

Our house is now a maze of boxes and "junk." I am stunned at how much absolute unnecessary junk we've accumulated over the course of our seven year stay in the home we are selling.

This move is highlighting for me the need to simplify by avoiding the advertising gimmicks of our culture that holler, "You cannot live without this." I can and we will!

Last Thursday evening at Tahoe, Tex Williams delivered a sterling message on the lure of coveteousness and how it disables godly people from giving to worthy causes. Reflecting on all the junk we've accumulated, I realize how we have sacrificed God's blessings to us for some of the trappings of this world.

In light of that reality, I repent. I need to divest myself and my family from the pull of this world in order to invest more of what God has blessed us with for the furtherance of His cause in this world.