Hello all,
I’ve just been listening to my church’s 1st preach from their new series on the ten commandments and felt inspired to share from it. To listen to it: http://rrcc.org.uk/index.php/resources/rrcc-talks/340-number-10-do-not-covet
Commandment number 10: Do not covet.
How often do I do that daily? I see some nice clothes I like and want it. But if I had it, would that satisfy? No, it wouldn’t be long until the next trend kicked in.
The western world is obsessed with money and possessions. I’ve seen that for myself after living in another culture.
The media tells us, have this, you’ll be happy. Have loads of money and you will be so happy, you’ll never have to scrape together money to pay a bill again. Ok so even if you had all the money in the world, you could buy anything you wanted, go anywhere you wanted, would you deep down be happy? If you think yes, then why do so many celebrities express their feelings of loneliness and unhappiness, often plastered all over the magazines and papers?
Life is not about money and getting high up in life...an amazing job doesn’t bring you real joy, only God does.
So as Jesus said in Matthew 6: 33-34:
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Let’s follow God with our all and trust that the God that placed the stars in the universe will provide for us :D X
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In my opinion we care not for possessions what people like is power, money and things are just a way of acquiring that power, humans by nature seem to be greedy probaly steming from when we were Neanderthals when everything was rare so everything was coveted, were yet to grow out of the greed impulse as a species, random information the greed impulse can be judged easily at a buffet there are two types of people those that get food and sit down away from from the buffet and eat, and those that get food and hover near the buffet while eating these are the people that feel the greed impulse the strongest.
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