PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Part three of three devotions in God’s New Covenant of Grace series
Lamentations
3:22-33
Psalm
136
Lamentations
3:22-23: “Because of the Lord’s great
love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your
faithfulness.”
Planned
obsolescence [ob-sol-ES-ense] means something that’s made to wear out soon. Obsolescence means old, useless. When something is made new to wear out soon,
something is definitely wrong. When
something wears out, what do we do? We
buy another to replace it! Built-in profit for that company.
Manufacturers
make stuff cheaply so they won’t last.
Thin plastic instead of metal.
The earlier things wear out, the better.
That doesn’t sound right, does it?
Of course not! But we see how
corruption has seeped into the world—a far cry from when God wrote His Laws on
our hearts so that we’d live righteously.
Believers
in Christ are empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit. He helps us live according to God’s Laws:
royal love for him and others, perfect liberty in Christ and faith that we’re
saved for eternal life. Christian
manufacturers should make stuff better so that they’d last longer. Where’s the profit in that?
God’s
not interested in making a profit. God
created a whole universe to last forever! Earth would have never worn out if people hadn’t
discovered fossil fuels. Burning coal
and oil provides heat. Oil is the main
ingredient of gasoline. Those fuels blew
enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that our climate balance is
whacko.
People
were never supposed to die.
Sin
is the bad-guy that invented wearing out.
Some
things don’t wear out. The same opening
Scripture passage is worded differently in another version of the Bible: “The steadfast love of the Lord never
ceases.” That’s something we can count
on to never wear out. God’s mercy and
grace never end. Because His love lasts
forever, it will never stop. God will never
stop being God, so His love for us shown through Christ will never end.
The
Lord’s love is eternal! Check out the
lesson linked below.
Take Home Nugget
Jesus suffered, died, AND rose
again. Death—to Believers—has become a
planned obsolescence. Death wore
out. Death is dead! Death has no claim on you! Jesus’ resurrection restored believers’ faith
in happily ever after. That gives God’s
kids a wonderful promise—that we too, will live forever!
When
Jesus comes to Earth a second time, He’ll also give us bodies that will never
wear out.
Heavenly Father, Thank You that Your love never wears
out—even if my pranks wear You out! I
can believe that Your love and Your faithfulness last forever. I celebrate Your new covenant of grace this
Thanksgiving. Amen.
Adapted from “Steadfast, Unmoving,
Unrelenting Love.” Salemink, Ray J. Portals of Prayer Devotional. July 17, 2015.
Missouri.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY, USA!
J.D. Griffith
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