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Wishful Thinking?

What do you sit around and think about? Do you sit around wishing you were somebody else or have somebody else’s life? Do you sit around telling yourself how poor you are? Do you sit around constantly feeling sorry for yourself about basically nothing? Do you sit around wishing you had a house like your neighbors because your house is in shambles?


Wishing or thinking about having, doing, or being someone else or obtaining their lifestyle is called Covetousness! It is lusting or desiring after what they have ~ and I bet you thought lust was just a sexual thing. Nope the bible says anytime you want what someone else has is coveting (lusting). Here is a scripture to confirm what I am saying! It's the Tenth Commandment!

You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.” Exodus 20:7 NLT


What did you say? I know that is the question you are asking. Well there is also a scripture in the bible that tells us to mind our own business! Hmm! This refers to taking care of your own affairs in your household.
Indeed, we hear that some among you are disorderly [that they are passing their lives in idleness, neglectful of duty], being busy with other people’s affairs instead of their own and doing no work. Now we charge and exhort such persons [as ministers in Him exhorting those] in the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that they work in quietness and earn their own food and other necessities. And as for you, brethren, do not become weary or lose heart in doing right [but continue in well-doing without weakening]. II Thessalonians 3:11-13 AMP.
If we are instructing our children of their household responsibilities, keeping the house clean, making sure the meals of the household are being prepared, even taking time to teach them the Word, you are not idle enough to consider or observe what your neighbor is doing. Even if it crosses your mind to covet, cast it down immediately and be happy for those who have the things you wish you had. God will bless you in time and when he knows you are able to receive his blessings! And when you do, receive them with Thanksgiving!


There are those who curse their father and mother and feel themselves faultless despite their many sins. They are proud beyond description, arrogant, disdainful. They devour the poor with teeth as sharp as knives!There are two things never satisfied, like a leech forever craving more: no, three things! no, four! Hell, the barren womb, a barren desert, fire. Proverbs 30:11-16 TLB


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