Comments on: Against covetousness.

By: Hearthrose

Fri, 31 May 2013 02:41:59 +0000

Well, it’s not like you get covetous (or I don’t, anyway) over a yacht or seventeen diamond necklaces. What do I want with those things? No.

Now, a nice craftsman/Victorian style house (sized for my hubs, so not an original) on an acre or two of land, some fruit trees, a good veggie garden, rain, nice neighbors, pleasant walks to take at twilight… now THAT I can get covetous over. Yep. Nooooo problem.

I remind myself that I’m not on earth for my own thing, I’m here on a mission. Sometimes a rather mysterious mission, as far as I’m concerned. My hope of heaven isn’t dependent on the vine and the fig tree… my eternity is better than that, so I don’t have to get all grabby about what is in this life.

Not that I’d say no, mind you. 😉

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By: pukeko

Fri, 31 May 2013 02:17:39 +0000

Yes, it is things that appear good, more frequently than things that are obviously bad.

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By: Hearthrose

Thu, 30 May 2013 23:31:17 +0000

I find myself being covetous about “good” things. Wouldn’t it be nice to live somewhere minus the neighbor’s nephew with the heroin addiction? How about that there traffic? Being able to grow food sustainably (not with enormous amounts of plant food and water and manure and…) is a good thing, right?

No one would argue that those are things that are reasonable to want. But making the “this would be nice” into an idol drops you flat into covetousness – and we have to guard against that. Content with what we have AND simultaneously delighted, like a child, with any presents we might receive.

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