It's Easy Being Green by Emma Sleeth

Author:Emma Sleeth [Sleeth, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-73007-1
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Unplug your charger from the outlet once your cell phone is fully charged.

A New Commandment

Once, when Clark and I were over at our friend Greg’s house, I picked up a book Greg’s youngest sister had left on the coffee table. It was a cute book, explaining the Ten Commandments in a kid’s language. Most of the commandments were pretty easy to translate: “Don’t lie” and “Listen to your mommy and daddy.” But what about the last one? Exodus 20:17 says, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” How do you communicate that to a child? The book’s answer: “Be happy with what you’ve got.”

This principle applies to a lot more than the houses, spouses, and farm animals listed on Moses’ stone tablets. It applies to the food on our plates, the clothes we have, the homes where we live, and the gadgets we’ve got. God wants us to appreciate all that we have: to be thankful, not greedy.

We can easily get trapped into thinking we always need the newest and best of everything. Take music, for example. We don’t need every piece of newfangled equipment in order to enjoy music, and the planet needs the pollution we create by purchasing new gadgets even less. Our parents were perfectly content with vinyl … until tapes came around. Tapes were awesome until CDs came into fashion. Now we all have to have a new MP3 player every few years. Is all this really necessary? We’re asking for more than we need instead of being content with what we have. It simply is not essential to always be on the cutting edge with the latest way of listening to music—or even to have the latest album from our favorite artist. Until that new form of listening came out or that album was released, we managed to live just fine without it. We need to resist the advertising around us that tells us to buy, to feed the consumer market, and instead we need to listen to God. Have you heard what he has to say?

“Be happy with what you’ve got.”

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