Awe by Paul David Tripp

Author:Paul David Tripp [Tripp, Paul David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2015-10-14T05:00:00+00:00

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MATERIALISM

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

JONATHAN SWIFT7

The designer sneakers

The hot sports car

The top-tier filet mignon

The exotic vacation

The $75,000 remodeled kitchen

The huge suburban home

The expensive watch

The gorgeous dress

The new nose

The toned body

The next tattoo

The carefully collected antiques

The well-manicured lawn

The sixty-inch flat screen

The lavish wedding

The beautiful garden

The seldom-used set of fine china

What do the things on this list have in common, and what in the world do they have to do with the topic of this book? Above is a seemingly random list of material things. None of them is inherently evil, but together they may depict a massive problem many of us have with the material world. I am not about to suggest that you jettison all the beautiful material things in your life. I am not about to suggest that it is evil to possess or enjoy these things. But I will suggest that street-level materialism is capturing our hearts and eating up the time, energy, and resources of our lives. For many of us, something is fundamentally amiss in our relationship to the world of physical things with which we come in contact every day.

I am deeply persuaded that the problem lies not with the things that attract us, addict us, and eat up our lives. Rather, our problem is what we bring to those things, which renders us unable to control our desire for, and our seemingly endless acquisition and enjoyment of, them.

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