I was watching last weeks sevenoseven videocast and there was a point that Andy shared that really strikes home with me. He says 

” The worst part about our return to slavery is that we convince ourselves that it’s okay. We’re sure that this is just the way that it has to be; it’s exactly what we need to get by or to make it, to feel excepted, to get through the night…. Like the Galatians who convinced themselves that they could live under Grace and the law at the same time, some of us have done the same thing: that you can be a slave, and a child of God at the same time. The question is, how can you do both?

   How can you find your identity in both Christ and your job? How can you find acceptance in Christ and casual sex? How can you find freedom from pain in Christ and alcohol? How can you find meaning in Christ and money? It is impossible to be free and a slave at the same time. Why would you even want that life? Why would you want to ruin the freedom that you have with the slavery that you left? It will never satisfy you, and will never make you whole. You will only wind up back where you started again.”

 

wow. I feel this is so applicable to the struggles of my life and my tendency to let the things and possessions of my life rule over me and my thoughts. It's so difficult for me to rest in comfort in Christ and not the things that surround me and that I own. For so long that has been a habit of mine, or problem rather, is materialism and looking for the next thing to fill that void within myself instead of seeking out that void through comfort in Jesus.