Material things

[missmuffet]

How important is it? God gives us what we need. What do you think we really need? Not want but need. 

Edited June 16, 2022 by missmuffet

[ayin jade]

Most basic

Food

Water

For some, medications

Heat in winter air conditioner in summer depending on where you live

[ayin jade]

Some may argue over air conditioner but over 300 people died in arizona last year from the heat. Some of us need air conditioner.

[Sower]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

How important is it? God gives us what we need. What do you think we really need? Not want but need. 

Love..

[missmuffet]

19 minutes ago, Sower said:

Love..

1. God

2. Water or we would die.

3. Food or we would starve.

4. A roof over our head to keep us out of the elements. Air conditioning if you live in a State that gets very hot.

What else is a essential need? 

Look at Solomon, the richest King in the world. He had everything he wanted 

and found it was worthless. It does not produce happiness. 

20 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

Some may argue over air conditioner but over 300 people died in arizona last year from the heat. Some of us need air conditioner.

Oh I would not argue over a/c being a need if you live in Arizona. Last summer we had temps of 113 degrees one day and 115 degrees the next day. That is very unusual for us. We have a downstairs that stays relatively cool. We have no a/c. The upstairs was so hot you would be up there for 2 minutes and it would make you sick. We had God with His protective hand on us and FANS. 

Medications? Yes, such as diabetics. But some religions do not believe in doctors or medications. Some have died. Even their children. Although the parents have been taken to court. 

Edited June 16, 2022 by missmuffet

[grahampaul]

1 hour ago, ayin jade said:

Most basic

Food

Water

For some, medications

Heat in winter air conditioner in summer depending on where you live

Add the" Word" to cuddle up to and am with you there.

[Sower]

1 hour ago, ayin jade said:

Some may argue over air conditioner but over 300 people died in arizona last year from the heat. Some of us need air conditioner.

Living in south central Texas I remember as a kid laying in bed at night on my back just in my underwear shorts, sweating so much it would form a little pool on my chest in the hollow there. I would wait till a soft breeze would slip in through the window and then I would rub the pool of sweat around and get 'wet' cool evaporating po folk air condition, as it evaporated. In the fifties nobody had AC (that we knew) and we didn't even have one fan in the whole house with nine of us.

Sometime in early sixties my dad bought a big swamp cooler, or evaporative water cooler, he installed into the kitchen window.  Us kids immediately slid chairs in front of the cooler and we would stand up to feel the 'cold' air blowing in our faces, and singing to hear the weird sounds. It was like we had "moved on up" in the neighborhood.   We would close all the windows, then open one each bedroom window a few inches so the air would blow through the house and exit through those windows. Cool!  It's the little things we forget to appreciate.

Today I have AC in  my shop where I work daily constructing commercial cabinet enclosures. Also have about a half dozen fans around to get that little extra 'evaporating' cool boost. Nostalgia . It's been getting up to 100-110 degrees lately, and decided as I was boss, I'm going to have a cool work space for my employee (me) to work. I'm a considerate boss. (God's the owner)
 

 

[Starise]

In trying to approach the subject critically, and being only made of human materials, I think it is very easy to talk big, but complain if I had to live in the picture I created.

I was raised in southern GA. US. The heat there isn't just hot, it's sticky humid hot. We didn't have air conditioning. The body compensates over time to some degree. you don't work in the heat. You find a shade tree and pace yourself. Drink plenty of water because you're going to sweat just sitting still.

If I HAD to do without certain things I would find a way to make it work. What we NEED and what we prefer are two very different things. The human body just feels more comfortable in some situations over others. 

Contentment and comfort are not synonymous. Paul was content in jail if it was where the Lord would have him be. If had had his RATHERS I'm sure he would have been somewhere else.

 

[Starise]

26 minutes ago, believeinHim said:

pronouncing

Pronouncing Christians?

[Starise]

Owwwwwwe kay