Comments on: Weeds & the Consequences of Living in a Material World http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/weeds-the-consequences-of-living-in-a-material-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weeds-the-consequences-of-living-in-a-material-world Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Dunham http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/weeds-the-consequences-of-living-in-a-material-world/#comment-67474 David Dunham Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:44:12 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5694#comment-67474 Ken, Thanks for your comment, that's a good observation as well. The need to own, to possess, has to be an issue of our hearts that we don't talk enough about. I really love Joe Pug's work and that song in particular is powerful. The last line of the song is equally as challenging. It says: Will you recognize my face when God's awful grace strips me of my jacket and my vest, revealing all the treasure in my chest! Wow! That just hits me hard.Would people even know me if they knew what I really loved deep inside behind the facade? Tough question to ask. Ken,
Thanks for your comment, that’s a good observation as well. The need to own, to possess, has to be an issue of our hearts that we don’t talk enough about.

I really love Joe Pug’s work and that song in particular is powerful. The last line of the song is equally as challenging. It says: Will you recognize my face when God’s awful grace strips me of my jacket and my vest, revealing all the treasure in my chest!

Wow! That just hits me hard.Would people even know me if they knew what I really loved deep inside behind the facade? Tough question to ask.

]]> By: Ken Summerlin http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/weeds-the-consequences-of-living-in-a-material-world/#comment-67463 Ken Summerlin Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:37:01 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5694#comment-67463 Excellent points made! I wonder if the problem is more in "ownership" than in the "use" of things. That need to "own" it is at odds with the truth that everything we have is only in our hands temporarily. It's not ours to keep. "Everything in heaven and earth is yours, O Lord . . . Riches and honor come from You alone . . ." I Chron. 29:11-12 I was especially struck by your Pug quote: "the more I buy the more I am bought, and the more I am bought the less I cost." It's a sobering thought that my price is going down with each successive purchase I make. Excellent points made! I wonder if the problem is more in “ownership” than in the “use” of things. That need to “own” it is at odds with the truth that everything we have is only in our hands temporarily. It’s not ours to keep.

“Everything in heaven and earth is yours, O Lord . . .
Riches and honor come from You alone . . .” I Chron. 29:11-12

I was especially struck by your Pug quote: “the more I buy the more I am bought, and the more I am bought the less I cost.” It’s a sobering thought that my price is going down with each successive purchase I make.

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