Don't get me wrong. I love Christmas. My Christmas lights and decorations went up on Black Friday. Christmas music is playing and the peppermint candle is burning in my home already. I even got my tree already. Christmas Eve at Grandpa's and Christmas Day at Nana's with all my family is something I look forward to every year.
But I struggle when people ask me what I want for Christmas. Am I really supposed to make a long list of materialistic things that I want today, but in a year might not matter anymore? How can I sit there and ask for things like a Kindle, a CD or movie, new books, gift cards,etc. when poverty covers the world?
Please hear what I am saying. I don't think it is wrong to have things. I have things. I have movies, a laptop, jewelry. And I know that necessity is defined differently everywhere... In America, transportation is necessary. Computers are necessary for college students. I get that.
I think if we were to take a look at the things that really matter in life, our Christmas list would look a lot different. As Christians, if we were truly seeking after God and living out the mission of Jesus, I think that it would like completely different.
My definition of necessity might be biased, but I think its a definition, if it caught on, that could radically change the world.
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