My Sister Sodom

I find it really interesting that I have never heard a Christian confess the sin of greed. Come to think of it, of all my years of going to church I don't remember even hearing someone address the topic of greed. The reason I think this is interesting is because we live in North America, where we have everything we could possibly want and more, and everything around us is in excess, and we are defined by our belongings and how much we own. So you would think, if there's going to be a group of people likely to struggle with being self indulgent and greedy it would be us. I think it's also wierd that we don't talk about greed when the very first sin that was commited was by Adam and Eve being greedy. I mean think about it, they were living in paradise with everything they needed at their fingertips and a perfect relationship with God, but they wanted more. All the trees in the garden of Eden weren't enough, they just had to eat some from the only tree they couldn't have.

Odd isn't it? It's like we refuse to acknowledge we have a problem. It's like we've decided to skip over the part of the gospels where Jesus tells the rich young man to sell everything. You know Jesus spoke more about money than he did about love. But I guess it's easier to love people, than to pay for them.

"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." - Ezekiel 16:49