Can't Buy Me.....

Yesterday my husband had a very funny text conversation that went like this:

Stephen: You know your from Plant City when.....

Brett: Your 8 year old son gets a tractor, and we didn't get it from Toys-R-Us!



I tried to flip it right side up, but sadly, I'm not tech savvy!

 This all started because Brett sent a picture to his buddy Stephen in Miami of our son on his mowing tractor. (So fitting, right?) Well as I watched him practice maneuvering this tractor around our yard, I couldn't help but think of the movie Can't Buy Me Love, the 80's flick with Dr.McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey.
In the movie, Dempsey, a nerd, had mowed lawns forever, saving for some big dream of his, but all of his life he had been in love with this Girl. This Girl wasn't any girl, she was the most popular, beautiful girl at their high school. There relationship started when Dempsey found out she needed money for something and he gave it to her in exchange for a date. Then he began buying her more and more things, but in the end Dempsey was found out and he learned money can't buy you love, only the relationship they had grown through a friendship could.
Just like you can't buy love, Psalms says you also can't buy eternal life. "There is no need to fear when times of trouble come, when enemies are surrounding me. They trust in their welath and boast of great riches. Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God. Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can pay enough to live forever and never see the grave." Psalms 49:5-9. If I could title this section of Psalms I would write in Big Bold Print: Can't Buy Me Life.
When we have money or riches we seem to think we can buy anything and everything. I see people trying to buy love, life, happiness, joy, friends, etc. all the time. But the problem is it may be there for a second, but it never lasts. You can't buy people and you especially can't buy God. It is all about the relationship. If you want any of these things you must invest yourselves in one another. You must make yourself adaptable and available to grow in a relationship, and then the love, life, joy, happiness, friendship, and peace will come. But there is no amount of money that can buy any of these. Money may be able to buy things, but It Can't Buy Me Life.