Worldliness

Okay, I'm back in the blog world after burning out post-exams. I'll return to this in a later post.

I've been considering the topic of worldliness over the last few days. I've been reading Worldliness by C.J. Mahaney as an inspiration. How appropriate! I picked it up for US$5 including shipping at crossway books (special until 15th Dec). 

So, in case you're wondering what the deal is with this picture... I'm sitting in the Apple store at Chadstone blogging! What a perfect place to contemplate worldliness! Rows of brand new iPhones, iPod Touch mp3 players, Macbook Pro's just glistening and waiting for me to pick them up and love them. The staff are all dressed in the latest threads and wearing the same attractive Apple t-shirts. U2 plays in the background. If I was in buying mode... I would be buying right now. Dozens of other cool, beautiful people are playing with the machines and credit cards keep flashing out to purchase these ridiculously expensive computers! Then there is me, I'm just coveting one of each for my own pleasure. Surely if I have all of these then I will be happy, right?! 

Wrong! That is the message they would like me to believe. That is the message I have been hearing as I have  been filling out gifts on my wedding registry. That is the message that greets me when I sit down to relax and watch TV. That is the message that keeps getting thrown at me and you know what the issue is... the Holy Spirit keeps on catching up to me to remind me that however much I kid myself, I'm believing it...

The question that I'm going to continue to ponder over the next few days is.... If two reports were prepared of a non-Christian and me that detailed conversations, Internet activity, iPod playlists, television habits, hobbies, leisure time, financial transactions, thoughts, passions, and dreams... would my life look the same? Would yours?