Counting Down The Ten Commandments - Being Content With The Hand We Are Dealt - Command #1011/30/2019 Good Morning Sabbath...
Father, Your Commandments are a Lamp to our feet. Help us to live aware, to choose wisely, to stay close to You, and anchored in Your Truth! Thank You for Your Great Love and Mercy. Thank You that You Wait For Us and You Strengthen Us. We come to You today, choosing to walk in Your Presence and Light. In Yeshua, Jesus Christ’s Name we pray. Amen! Counting Down The Ten Commandments - Being Content With The Hand You Are Dealt - Command #10 Instruction: In many ways we can see coveting is a "root sin" or a sin that can be a doorway to other sins. If we ask the question: Why would anyone commit adultery? No doubt the answer would be that it is because that person has coveted their neighbor's wife. And if we ask the question: Why would anyone steal? The answer would be because that person has coveted their neighbor's "things" or possessions. Such "things" could be cars, houses, electronic gadgets, animals, and a myriad of other possessions. The draw or desire to "beautiful" or "attractive things" is an ever present temptation in our fallen world full of opportunistic advertising that seeks to profit on these desires of our hearts for monetary gain. One only needs to look at the advertiser satan in The Garden with Eve, or Abraham's neighbor and nephew Lot with Sodom in The Bible, and we find examples of our ancestors dealing with this same issue. Our ancestors failed in these instances, but Our Kind Father has given these examples to us in His Word, to help us to overcome these same desires, and to recognize these sins when they well up inside us. When we take notice of something our neighbor has or a cool new product advertised that we don't have, we should ask ourselves: Do we have to have it? The Giving of Thanks: The fact is, we wouldn't have the need or desire to covet these "things" if we learn how to put our trust and belief in Our Father and Our Savior Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Our God has provided for us everything we need and He gives us an invitation to ask Him for the things we need, and to Trust Him to provide them, instead of coveting, from the world or our neighbor. Let us give God Our Father our thanks that He has given us Our Daily Bread in His Ever Merciful, Kind, Loving, and Bountiful Provision. Confession: For this, our confessions purposes, it is prudent to ask ourselves: How strong is our desire for "things?" Let us confess to Our Father any absence of trust in Him from which these desires might grow. Let us ask ourselves: Am I trusting that God will give me what I need? Am I filled with a desire for something my neighbor has? In The Word of God we see coveting being connected to idolatry (Ephesians 5:5). We can see where this is bringing us all the way back to the beginning of The Ten Commandments and our recent study of them. Let us now confess any idolatry, desires for things we don't need, or covetousness that may be infecting our walk with God and our lives. Let us take a final moment to confess any ways we may have "raised up" any material things above The One who was Raised Up For Us. Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, You are All-Efficient, All-Sufficient, and All-Powerful. We ask that you help us to bring our hearts to repentance and have our hearts covet after nothing except a closer walk with Thee. You Alone are to be The Ruler of Our Hearts and Desires. Help us to know and act in accordance with the fact that You Alone are to be our desire, and that nothing in heaven or on earth can compare. Please make this true in our lives Abba (Father). You are our King. We Love You, We Thank You, We Praise You, and in Our Savior's Mighty Name, whom You Sent for us, we fervently pray. Amen.
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