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Impulse Buyer, by Steve Higginbotham
Hello, my name is Steve Higginbotham and I am an impulse buyer. There,
I feel better now. But it's true, I'm the kind of guy for which they
make commercials and design eye-catching packaging. When I go shopping,
if I see something on the shelf I like, I put it in the buggy.
Consequently, my children never miss an opportunity to go shopping with
me, and my wife rarely sends me.
But this "impulse buying" has sometimes led to some very poor
purchases. You see, I don't check the price like I should, and it's not
until I'm at the checkout that I realize how expensive some items are.
Well, at this point, I'm too embarrassed to say anything. I don't want
to hold people up in the line behind me by putting it back. So I
proceed with the purchase that has now lost its luster.
There will be a "checkout" some day!
Now, if I can change subjects, is that not precisely why we choose to
sin? Impulse. If we fully comprehended the cost before the transaction
was made, we wouldn't make it. But we go on our impulse. Immediate
gratification. And we don't worry about the price until we get to the
checkout.
Well friends, let me remind you that there will be a "checkout" some
day, and we will have to pay for our "purchases." Therefore, I would
encourage you, as well as myself, to learn self-discipline, and make
life-choices based, not upon today, but upon eternity.
[Jesus said] "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew
6:19-21 NASB).
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(c) 2008 Steve Higginbotham <shigg@glasgow-ky.com>
RELATED LINKS:
* Are We Missing Something?
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* Treasure in Toilets
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200708/20070821_treasure.html
* Treasure!
http://www.heartlight.org/timely_truths/treasure.html
* MERCeMAIL
http://www.glasgow-coc.org/mercemail_2006.htm
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