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ANOTHER FALSE CULT

How do you know if it is practicing of him?

Some years ago Mark Buchanan published in the magazine “Chistianity Today“ the following titled article “Caught in the cult of the next thing”:“ I belong to the cult of: What is the next thing?. It is dangerously easy to fall down in this group. It happens for defect, and not for election of the cult, when one does not manage to resist to him. The cult of: What is the next thing? it is the consumerism in religious terms. It has its own litany of sacred words: more, you deserve it to yourself, new, more rapid, cleaner, more brilliant. It has its own traditional liturgy: it load, instantaneous credit, without prompt payment, deferred payment, without interests for three months. It has its own preachers, Evangelists, prophets and apostles: publicists, players and sponsors of celebrities. It has, of course, its own sanctums, chapels, temples, wild Indians: shopping centers, supershops, stores. It has its own sacraments: cards of credit and of debit. It has its own delight experience: the compulsive buys. The central message of the cult of: What is the next thing? it proclaims:“ He wants and buys because the kingdom of the things has approached.”

Very correctly Philip Graham Ryken comments: "A lot of from our frustration in the life it comes of wanting things that God has not given to us. In our covetous desire, we concentrate more on what we do not have that in what we have. All our dissent comes from the same type of reasoning.” And this way we spend the life, wanting and wanting more, because in the fund, the truth is that we have not found anything that satisfies us.

There is a poem that he says:

It was a spring, but I was wishing it to be a summer:

The warm days and the outdoor activities.

It was a summer, but I was wishing it to be an autumn:

The coloring sheets and the cold and dry air.

It was a winter, but I was wishing it to be a spring:

The heat and the awakening of the nature.

He was a child and he already wanted to be an adult:

The freedom and the respect.

He was 20 years old, but he was wishing already 30:

To be mature and sophisticated.

It was of medium age, but he wanted to be 20:

The freedom and the freedom of spirit.

It was retired, but he wanted to be of medium age:

To have the mind without limitations.

My life ended,

And I never had what I wanted.

The secret worm of the dissatisfaction produces the greed that can throw everything to lose. The sinful dissatisfaction with what God did to us and it has given to us, they will never drive to anything good but to spend the whole life without appreciating nor to enjoy anything.

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