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wealth is never satisfied with his income...As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?\b) Lie number two -having more things will make me important -\ out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.'\12:15)c) Lie number three -having things, more things, will make me secure. \ trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.\Most of us still buy the lies, and as we buy the lies, we want to buy things with money that we don't have, and we go into this thing called, \2.Pretend we are somebody we are notIt's a shallow and harmful view of borrowing. Debt beckons us like the sweet, siren song luring a mariner to the destructive, rocky shores. The lyrics suggest that borrowing is the way to achieve the beautiful, wrinkle-free life. Just like little children who dress up in daddy's and mama's clothes and pretend to be bigger than they are. Debt allows us to pretend to be somebody we're not.Here's what Solomon said about debt in Proverbs 12:9, \nobody and yet have a servant than to pretend to be a somebody and have no food.\to be rich, yet has nothing; another man pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.\Have you ever noticed in the paper some guy with the yacht, a fleet of Rolls Royces, jewels and an Aspen home then all of a sudden, he goes bellyup. Why? Because what he owed on all that stuff was more than it was worth. On the other hand, it seems like every few months, I find out about somebody who has the modest of lifestyles, who's worth a fortune. See, the former is a pretender, and the latter is the real thing. The problem with pretending is, sooner or later, you have to stop likewise with debt. Sooner or later, you have to pay it with interest.Now believe it or not, there was a time in this country where credit was very difficult to obtain. I know that's hard to believe. There was a time in this country when you could keep spending to a minimum because when you run out of money, you stop spending. That did not stop coveting; it just put a damper on your spending. Ironically, about the same time that our federal government began living on money that it didn't have is about that same time debt and credit became available to practically everybody. We all became like the \