Be the funnel...
Do you window shop? There's nothing inherently wrong with window shopping. The problem comes when such looking around stirs within us distracting longing for more and more and more. The problem comes when the desire to obtain interrupts contentedness, clouds discernment, or corrupts stewardship.
The thing is, our culture cultivates a longing eye. We are always being told we need something or the next thing or a better thing. We often think being happy will happen when we buy, trade for, build, beg, borrow, or steal the next object.
Do these things, in all practicality, become the idols that we bow to and beg from? We bow with our time and resources and beg from them happiness.
Listen, friends, I'm not concentrating on the negative; it just "feels" that way because so much of our culture and age is about hunting for and acquiring stuff. We even build extra rooms and extra buildings and extra businesses for our STUFF!
It seems like "getting" is the blessing. The difficulty for us is that much of what runs with culture runs counter to God's wisdom, will, and way.
Consider this wisdom: "Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered." (Proverbs 11:25 ESV)
See it? According to this proverb, the pathway to being blessed is not getting, but giving. Real prosperity does not come from being the marketplace's closet; it comes from being God's funnel.
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