What do you covet?

Coveting. I like to think about that as something other people do. Unfortunately, the Lord is showing me that I need to think about this a little bit. What is coveting? According to yesterday's video session with James MacDonald, coveting is several things. Here's the notes from yesterday's session:

• Those who choose murmuring as their lifestyle will spend their lifetime in the wilderness.
• Covetousness is wanting wrong things.
• Covetousness is wanting right things for the wrong reasons.
• Covetousness is wanting right things but at the wrong time or in the wrong amount.
• God hates covetousness.
• Covetousness becomes sin when you yield to it.
• When we dwell on desire, yielding is only a matter of time.
• At the root of covetousness is a rejection of God's sufficiency.
• Beware of begging God for non-essentials.
• If you're a covetous person, enough is never enough.
• If you're a covetous person, you'll spend your life in the wilderness.

James related Numbers 11 and the people not trusting the Lord to coveting. He ended the session with these questions:

• Are you a covetous person?
• Do you spend more time thinking about people to impact or things to get?
• Are you in the wilderness?
• Do you need to repent?

If you have some ideas about coveting, please email them to me or post them to the blog. stephieb@swbell.net