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Day 4277 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Ecclesiastes 5:11 NIV The empty lives of busy eyes I’ll surprise no one in saying that we live in a world vastly lost within a constant production of new things, of shiny things, of fancy things, of expensive things. Nor then that it’s all of these various things that have come to become the things upon which most of life is based. We all know that we all go in the way of want as I know we’ve all known what it is to want. And indeed, to want is to buy, to have, to hold and all the above demand the eye sees whatever it may be that we come to want and too that both the mind and heart agree to this belief that is this want that we think a need. And that because, to us, there is no difference anymore. There is no separation to be found inside of us between need and want. Rather the two are such constant feelings that are thus, to us, seeming always the same thing seeking the same result that they’re altogether interchangeable. Need is want and our want is to need. We love to need things as...