No Need to Covet
We live in a culture that depends on coveting. Watch any amount of television, read almost any magazine, surf any website and you'll see it. That thing you MUST have that someone else has and is really enjoying. Usually a famous face is using it and making you feel so small for not having it. The marketing strategy of America is banking on you breaking the 10th commandment. Exodus 20:17 (ESV) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” The word "covet" is a key word in the first few chapters of the bible. It is used to describe the pleasantness of all that God created. Genesis 2:9 (ESV) And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant (coveted) to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ...