making it

I caught a snippet of one of those TV programmes which are so fascinating, but yet we all squirm about. This one seemed to be a group of people with more money than sense at an engagement party. The gift from the groom to be to the bride to be was a Rolex watch valued at about $40,000 ( over 25,000 pounds). One of the woman's friends stated that you know you have made it when you have a Rolex ( and this was actually her second one) and the woman herself  who declared that at forty she deserved this.
I felt sad. Sad because I know that the looks don't last and the parties take their toll. Sad because even the most expensive of things break. And even sadder because I know that that amount of money is more than most people earn in a year.
But it is easy to point fingers at extravagance. The root of the issue seems to be more how we see ourselves. Do we need all the bits and pieces of do we know that our real worth and our real home is somewhere more solid and eternal - in God and with God.
If we find ourselves using the "I couldn't live without...." language and we are serious about that, whether it is chocolate biscuits or a Rolex watch, we might want to take a deep breath and ask ourselves some serious questions. If God is not the one thing that we cannot live without, then we are only barely scraping by.