REFRIGERATORS & RECEPTACLES

REFRIGERATORS & RECEPTACLES

Friday, April 07, 2017

1John 2:1, 15-17 [NLT] My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. … Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. [Again, please take time to read in context in your favorite Bible.]

  Advertisement executives and writer/designers may not have read or studied OT Genesis 3 but they definitely understand modus operandi exercised there; you cannot make people do something, but you can influence them to think they are lacking and need what you offer. Then there is the truth of NT epistle 1John chapter 3 stating where our affections should rest.

  Once upon a time decades ago there was the pun that some salesmen thought themselves smart enough to sell refrigerators to Eskimos. Little did many think the remark more than a jealous wisecrack. (Though again I did not hear him until later my Dad was an outspoken exception, saying “Mark my word, they will.”) Others took it as a suggestion, and eventually did so.

  How far has it, Satan’s modus operandi come?

  Once upon a time the sales pitch “For the man who has everything …” was aimed at the wealthy elite. Gradually those skilled in Genesis 3 modus operandi successfully targeted the USA middle class . . . and then created and worked the poorer classes, reaching even those on welfare.

  As I have aged I’ve come to recognize the “More please.” In our USA society, this man no exception.

  Recently I’ve read and am hearing “Those ugly wall receptacles.” Laugh if you will, but I, with hand upon my refrigerator prophecy the coming advent of elitist homes sans visible electrical receptacles, then once the market is saturated moving to our middle class shoppers, then …..

EBB4

PS. Another was “That car salesman could sell shoe polish to a barefoot man.”