New Apple Products!

Wow! The new iMacs look awesome.  Exciting. It makes yesterday's iMacs... so... old looking.  Apple is the master at making their old stuff look old when their new stuff comes out. 

And that got me thinking.  What is it inside of us that makes us all of a sudden hate the old stuff when newer, shinier things come out?  Whether it's cars, computers, clothes, or phones, we all have this desire to get the latest and greatest thing.  But it's not like the old stuff stops working.  It's not like the old stuff doesn't do less than when you first bought it... it's just our desire to have something better, shinier, newer, smaller, bigger, etc.  We spend so much of our time chasing the newest thing... when a couple of months from now, we'll have it, and then something new comes out and then we'll all be chasing that again.  It's a constant cycle of chasing... when does it end? When are we finally going to be satisfied?   

I think you know where I'm going with this.  Maybe we need to stop chasing the newer, shinier thing, and be grateful for what we already have.  Maybe we need to stop chasing the things that are ever-changing, and start chasing the everlasting, always faithful God.  6 months from now, guess what?  God will be God.  He'll still be all-powerful.  He'll still be full of grace.  He'll still be loving and merciful...


The new iMac is incredible... but in 6 months, something tells me that this will no longer be the "best" thing out there.