Young people, especially teenage boys, are used to hearing, “Your not in love, your in lust.” They here it from parents, teachers, and maybe even from some friends. The message being that we shouldn't allow our lust to control us and make us do things we will regret later, like when our seventeen-year-old pregnant wife is beating us up on MTV. 
    But lust isn't limited to teens, nor is it limited to sexual relationships. In fact, many of us, regardless of our age or sex, and letting our lives be driven by lust. When we buy a bigger house, not because we really need more space but because someone tells us, “a person in your position should have a bigger home,” we are letting lust drive out decision. When we rush to buy a new car because it looks so cool in the TV add, even though the car we have is not very old and still works just fine, we are letting lust control us. When we stand in line for eight hours to get the cell phone flavor-of-the-month, we are letting our lives be driven by lust. 
    So before your rush out to buy things just because they are new ask yourself why you need it. What is it going to give you that you didn't have before? If it's going to make it easier for you to do your job, go for it. If it will make it easier for you to communicate with friends and family, get it. If it's going to make your life less stressful, or better in some other way, without creating a lot of environmental hazards in the process, than consider it. But if you want it just because someone else has it, or just because it's newer than the one you have, then you really shouldn't get it unless you want to have a life controlled by your lust, a life which is rarely, if ever, satisfying and is definitely not spiritual.