Bear fruit in keeping with repentance!!

I was opening up my browser on the computer and on my home page this article jumped out at me!!! 10 things Americans cant live without. I was very interested in what these were!! Here is one of those things: "Amercians are spending less on entertainment--but watching more TV. A recent survey by consulting firm Deloitte found that they typical American watches nearly 18 hours' worth of shows on a home TV each week, two hours more than a year earlier. One reason might be that more unemployed people are killing time at home. But TV might also seem like a cheap alternative to sports events, concerts and DVD purchases. And hard-core TV watchers can't be all that strapped, since sales of high-definition TV sets have risen steadily right through the recession." There are so many things that are wrong with this statement, but as I began to read I said, "I am not consumed by these things, I don't even have television, Praise God I'm not like the world." How easily Satan will take a jewel in the crown of a believer and entice him to exalt in himself. Luke 18:11-12, "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: God, I thank you that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all I get. When we are not mindful of the fact that we are SINNERS saved by grace through faith, it is so easy to trail off into the mindset and dare I say stay in the mindset of pride, holier than thou, I'm not like you, type of thinking. Don't get me wrong, or misunderstand me, we should not be like the world, we should not love the things of this world, we should not be motivated by the things of this world, all of our affection should be in Christ and we should be able to stand with Paul and say, I count all things as loss, rubbish, garbage. That, Christ is our supreme satisfaction, our eternal joy!!! And when we put off the things of this world it IS A JEWEL in the crown of the believer. Therefore, we must have the mindset of the tax collector, Luke 18:13-14, But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner! I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted. May God be exalted in everything we do, and not ourselves!!