We Don't Need a Castle
By: Anne Peterson Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. - Hebrews 13:5 Did you ever read the story, The Fisherman's Wife? It's a wonderful story about a fisherman who catches a magic fish. When the fisherman shared this with his wife she called him foolish and told him to go and have the fish give them a cottage instead of the small house they lived in. The fisherman obeyed and came home to a nice cottage. But a day later, the wife was dissatisfied and insisted he go back and ask for a castle. The fisherman reluctantly did that, and there was a castle in place of their cottage. A day later, the wife wanted to be the queen of the whole land. Once again, the husband went to the fish and told him what his wife wanted. And even though that wish was also granted, the wife wanted to be ruler over the sun and moon. When the husband left the fish after telling him, he came home to find something that surprised him. He found his wife in the very little house they first had. The moral is: We should be content with what we have. It's easy to look around and see what others own and to be dissatisfied with what we have at the moment. In this age of technology, we are forever being shown things we should own. The whole psychology behind marketing is to make the potential buyer feel like he/she is missing out, if they do not have the newest of everything. But God's Word is what we should be immersed in, not the world and advertisements. Read Romans 12:2. God wants us to not be conformed to this world. We don't have to follow the world's pattern. If we read God's Word, we see how important it is to be content. | 
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