(CS4U) Are You Covetous? - Part 3

 

Are You Covetous? - Part 3

 

You shall not covet.
Exodus 20:17

 

Be careful what you beg God for; in time you may come to hate the thing you had to have! Listen: "The Lord will give you meat until it comes out of your nostrils" (Numbers 11:18-20). God was pretty ticked off with this bunch. Why? Because they thought something else could satisfy them in a way that He could not. So He gave them so much, they choked on it. David writes, "He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul" (Psalm 106:15). Try to understand this: with God, you can be satisfied with very little; without Him, all your accomplishments will leave you empty. What are you craving? Putting your life on hold for? Continually begging God for? Nothing is essential but God. Things were never designed to take His place! When we covet something and make it essential - then beg God to give it to us - we are asking Him to replace Himself with something we consider more important. When we do this, God may allow us to experience the consequences. And they are not pretty! Do not reach the end of your life only to look back with regret on a shattered marriage, prodigal children, a blighted conscience, and the pain of having missed God's will. Our problem is not that we do not want God; it is that we want God and the perfect spouse, an impressive career, the house by the lake, or whatever catches our fancy next. What will it take for us to come to that settled place where the central desire of our lives is "God, I just want You."

 

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me with my struggle with the two natures. Help me to daily drown that Old Adam that is in me and put on the New Adam in Christ Jesus. In Your Precious Name, Amen

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