Today's temptation

I struggle with a passion to shop... I LOVE to shop... I'm a confessed shopaholic. When I get bored, I want to shop. I think of ways to spend my money, especially if it's payday.
What is this about? Why have I been wired like this? I love buying new things. It could be from the grocery store, and I get excited...

I have to pray for strength, because I can get really out of control. Some days I'm okay, but others... watch out.
If I don't focus on my purpose, on the promise that is on my life... I can allow the temptation turn into sin... I need to realize that is okay to shop, but when I obsess over it and HAVE to do it... that's when it becomes an idol...

Romans 6:11-14
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 . Zondervan: Grand Rapids