Today is Black Friday in the USA, the day that is supposed to represent the official start of the Christmas holiday shopping season. Many stores opened their doors at 10:00 PM or at midnight on Thanksgiving, while other stores opened their doors at 4:00 AM this morning. TV news video showed hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of people lined up in the middle of the night outside of stores, and then storming the doors once the stores opened for business.
It is all so obscene and vulgar.
In California, a woman injured 20 other shoppers with pepper spray at a Walmart so that they would not grab the items that she wanted to buy. In North Carolina, there was gunfire outside of a store. In past years there have been deaths on Black Friday. In New York a man was trampled to death outside of a store when people stepped and stomped on him as the store opened its doors in the middle of the night.
In Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (NKJV), the author, presumed to be Solomon, wrote, "Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure ... And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind."
In Luke 12:15 (NKJV), Jesus said, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses."
Black Friday has become a day of unbridled greed and materialism, in direct contrast to what Jesus taught in Luke 12:15.
Black Friday.
It is a day that is very appropriately named.
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