The World is not My Home.

Greetings,

Two year ago I decided after my last visit to a mall that I
would not visit, browse or shop in malls anymore. I found
that it was vanity and served me no purpose as I have no
need of things mall shops have. The fancy items mall shops

have do not appeal to a common, modest, ordinary man

as myself as I prefer the quiet, unglamorous life. In fact

I can safely say that going to the mall was a voyage into

alien territory. I feel more at home shopping for necessities

at Family Dollar or Dollar General and as far as buying

something I want, the only brick-and-mortar store I

go to is Hobby Lobby. And if it doesn't have what I am

looking for I buy online.

The world and all of its glamour and fashion hype simply

does not turn me on. It is why I do not watch TV anymore.

I only use my TV to watch my favorite DVDs and there will

come a time when I will do away with the TV set and watch

DVDs on my computer. Time to get rid of things I don't need

and simplify.

I am a man who is content with his wages (Luke 3:14) and

in all things I am content (Phillipians 4:11) and have no need to

"keep up with the Joneses." It has been said, "You can't take

it with you." How true that is!

I admit I never was a very ambitious man when I was much

younger and I paid dearly for that. But since converting to

Christianity in 1993 I began to take another look at my

present state. I had the things necessary to survive in this

life and even did things I liked. I lived in a mobile home which

I payed on a modest income, and did the same with a car.

I paid my bills on time, I cooked my own meals, did my own

laundry, my trailer kept me warm in the winter and cool in the

summer, and I even enjoyed my hobby of model car building

which I still do to this very day. All of that was done while

employed at a hospital as a laundry truck driver and later a

supply delivery driver. Did not God say that if a man didn't

work, neither shall he eat? I worked, so I ate. And quite

well, I might add.

Well, here I am now employed as a forklift operator in

the coin vault of a well-known armored transport company

and living in a spartan, one-bedroom apartment and doing

the things I enjoy and now add storyblogging to the picture

with my other blog Newberry. I don't need a lot of glamour

or unusual events to be happy. The world is not my home so

I don't need to buy into the world's idea of what it means to

be happy. I used to be that way and there are times today

I still struggle with that. But I see how God has provided

and it was from Him all along.

Yeah, what would it profit me, if I gain the whole world and

lose my own soul? The fashion of this world does indeed pass

away. (Luke 9:25) (1 Corinthians 7:31)

Have a blessed day,