purging of my life

So, I was reading "Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper and in chapter 3 he kept bringing up the fact that we do not have to live a financially wealthy life or know everything in the world for us to make a last impact on the world.  Honestly, I never thought about it before but he is totally right.  As soon as I started reading this, my heart started racing.  You may wonder why, well, I have one thing in my life that I have put before God almost 100% of the time.  That would be my dvd collection.  I have collected dvd's over 10 years now and so you can say that I have devoted a lot of time and money into this "hobby".  I have over 500 dvd's.  Yeah, I know..... a lot.  But, when I was reading what Piper was saying, I realized that I was not living a life for God but living a life to see how many dvd's I can collect over the years.  Okay, so now when I pass on, what are people going to remember me by?  My dvd collection?  Or how about, the way I lived my life for God?  As of right now, I know people would know me for my dvd collection.  I hear people always describe me as "the one with the dvds".  Oh, yeah that showed them!  HA. 

I have been realizing for a while that I want to live my life for God but I never thought I would have to give up something that was so valuable to me in order to allow Him to take over anything in my life.  Seriously?!! My dvd collection?!  What is He doing to me?!  I'm going to be honest, I got a huge headache over knowing that I was going to have to go through ALL of my dvd's and sell them.  Okay, so I did keep some dvds.  But, let me get this out before anyone says, "Well, then you're not really following what God wants you to do."  I really believe that He wants me to have a relationship with Him; not the dvds.  The one thing that I really need to do is get in control of my spending and collecting.  He does not say that it is bad to have material things.  However, it is bad when those things are taking place of your relationship with Him.  So, I went through my dvd's and decided to keep the ones that were Disney (duh, it's Disney), motivational films (i.e. Freedom Writers), war films (I LOVE history), my homemade videos (no one is going to want those anyway), some classic dvds (White Christmas) and a couple of dvds that I DO watch and enjoy (Because I Said So).  But, everything HAS to go.  I mean, I want people to be able to look at what I own and think of the kind of person I am when I am not in the room.  I mean, when you walk into someone's house and you see skulls everywhere, what do you think of them?  When you walk into my house and you see good wholesome things around, what is your impression of me then?  I know, worlds different.  So, needless to say, I came to the conclusion that I want people to know me for my relationship with God and not what I own.  So, in order to do this, I am doing exactly what God asked Job to do (to an extent, at least for right now) and get rid of what is hindering me with my relationship with Him.  In this case, it would be my dvd collection.