Buyer's Remorse

In a time of extravagance and waste, Calvin Coolidge became President.  Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper, 
and a man determined to preserve the old moral and economic precepts in the midst of great material prosperity.

President Coolidge's conservatism revealed itself in every aspect of his life, including his well-known frugality.  Knowing of his respect for his bankroll, his wife, Grace, nevertheless fell for the blandishments of a traveling book salesman and bought one 
of those 1800-page "home medical advisers" for something like fifteen dollars (a lot 
of money in those days).  No sooner than the salesman departed, Grace began to have grave misgivings.  "What will Calvin say?" "How am I going to tell him?" Finally, she decided to put the book down on the library table, and await the explosion which would follow when her husband found it.  To her amazement, nothing was said about it at all.  Finally, after several days, Mrs. Coolidge opened the book and found that her husband had written a note on the fly-leaf: "I have looked carefully through all 1800 pages of this work," it read, "and find no cure whatever for a SUCKER.”

"Buyer's remorse" is not unknown to most of us.  "WHY did I buy this?" "I could have used my money more wisely." Such mistakes are seldom of such magnitude to really threaten us financially, but they certainly leave us disappointed with ourselves and our choices!

An Old Testament prophet once asked, "Why do you spend your money for 
that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?"  This pictures life in its dissatisfaction and hunger.  It's the condition of the soul apart from God – a sense of unrewarding, fruitless labor.

The antidote for an unfulfilled life - is a willingness to diligently LISTEN to God and  COME to Him (Isaiah 55:1-3).  When THAT decision is made, there will be NO remorse.*

The truly abundant, fulfilling life as well as eternal life to follow comes through a "saving relationship" with God through Jesus Christ, His Son 
(John 10:10; Mark 10:28-30).  When by faith  (Hebrews 11:6), we repent of sin 
(2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess Christ (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ (Acts 2:38), our sins are forgiven and we are added to the family of God.  Then as children of God, we must CONTINUE to obey our Father's will – He knows what is best!

Jesus asks, "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the WHOLE WORLD, and loses his OWN SOUL? Or what will a man give in exchange for his SOUL?" (Matthew 16:26).

Avoid "buyer's remorse."  Don't "sell your soul" for those things that are temporary and worthless.  

Give your life to Jesus – you'll never regret it!

God bless you!

David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* John Gipson, Windsong church of Christ, Little Rock, AR, USA

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