Ep: 369: The Root Causes of Materialism

Sean: Causes for a person to be materialistic? Sean: I'd say two things. Number one is greed. Number two is lust. That's it. When you lust for things, you want to get them. You want to buy it. You want to own it. And when you have a lot of lust for things, that's greed. So I think those are two causes. Sean: The root cause would be the heart. The Book of Jeremiah Chapter 17 says, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick, who can understand it. I can understand it sometimes and want to buy stuff. I don't even know why I want to buy stuff, even if it's not to impress other people. It's just sometimes you want to buy something useless. You know, I don't understand why I'm like that sometimes. Thankfully, ninety-nine point nine percent of the time I refrain from buying that thing. But yeah, so that's my take on that. Sean: How can one get over materialism? Sean: Have an eternal perspective. If you know that everything's going to burn at the end of the day, then you're not going to invest in this world, and the stuff's in this world, you're going to give. Like 10 percent, I give the God of everything I make. And then I also give to other people like pastors, missionaries to help further God's kingdom. And yeah, I make it a habit to give every month. And I know a lot of people who also have that much faith that they give their tithes and then they give and support pastors and missionaries as well. And God has blessed those people immensely. And I want to be as blessed as they also. The Bible says, give - literally, the Bible says this give and it will come back to you. Good measure. Pressed down, shaken together, running over, overflowing. So that's God's word, that God's promise. If you believe that, then it's going to be true for you. I know it's true for me. And the question is, is going to be true for you, right? Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/leadershipstack Join our community and ask questions here: from.sean.si/discord Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipstack