This is the last of the Ten Commandments, “You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbors”.\u00a0 The word covet is one we don’t use much these days.\u00a0 Basically it means to desire greatly enough to try to make the possession your own.\u00a0 If Susie ‘covets’ Jenny’s sucker, she is willing to take it from her,by force if necessary.\u00a0 It isn’t wrong for Susie to want a sucker, but not specifically Jenny’s sucker.<\/p>\n
We may admire the neighbors new house or swimming pool, that doesn’t mean we ‘covet’ it.\u00a0 We may dream of having a boat like the pastor has, but that isn’t ‘coveting’. We may even think our friend has a beautiful wife, but it doesn’t become ‘coveting’ until we try to get her for ourselves.<\/p>\n
We all would like nice things.\u00a0 Most of us like to have adult toys, like cars and motorcycles,new hair colors or shoes. We might even desire to have something just like our neighbor has; but all long as we are desiring to get our own and not take what belongs to someone else, we are not sinning.<\/p>\n
My husband loves our neighbor’s 1972\u00a0 red Mustang.\u00a0 He would love to own one like it, but he isn’t going to steal it from Ray.\u00a0 David coveted Bathsheba.\u00a0 He had her husband killed so he could have her for himself.\u00a0 The magicians\u00a0 of bible times wanted the powerful gifts of miracles and healing that\u00a0 Jesus’ disciples had, so they tried to buy it from them.<\/p>\n
It is’t wrong to see things that others have and desire them.\u00a0 It is wrong to covet them to the point of taking action to get them for yourself.\u00a0 There is a right way and a wrong way to get the things we want from life.\u00a0 The right way is to work and earn them for ourselves.\u00a0 The wrong way is to lie, steal and manipulate to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the last of the Ten Commandments, “You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbors”.\u00a0 The word covet is one we don’t use much these days.\u00a0 Basically it means to desire greatly enough to try to make the possession your own.\u00a0 If Susie ‘covets’ Jenny’s sucker, she is willing to take it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,14],"tags":[42,11],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-inspiration","tag-choices","tag-convictions"],"yoast_head":"\n