Today we did something that we have done every year for a long time, we had a ten yard dumpster delivered to our house. A ten yard dumpster is huge, but every year we fill it up. Where does all that stuff come from? It seems like we are like a magnet and stuff just ends up at our house. A lot of what gets thrown into the dumpster is stuff we bought years ago and it no longer works or we no longer need or want it. It is nice to get rid of all that clutter and junk.

With Amazon and eBay it is so easy to buy stuff. Sometime I need it and sometimes I don’t, and it ends up in the dumpster next year. Some verses that address this problem;

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and the stuff in the world.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Luke 18:22 When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “One thing you still lack; sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.