You Version is an app I love using to read devotionals of any kind. There's categories such as devos for married couples, kids, some Bible reading plans, and just about any topic you can think of. If you don't have this on your phone, it's something you should definitely get!
This morning I stumbled on some nuggets of wisdom I wanted to share.
One devotional from Mood Publishers says, "Coveting is more than merely wanting something, pursuing someone, or aspiring to some position; it is deeper than that. It crosses into an obsessive craving and unquenchable thirst to just "having to have" the object of our desire. It leads some to pine away in self-pity and others to fanatically chase after their preoccupation.
Either way, coveting is a fixation to capture what we do not have. It is based on the addictive illusion that if we have the object of our desire, we will be satisfied. But as poets have written and rock stars have sung, the satisfaction doesn't dawn. The fulfillment doesn't last. The mirage of arriving is never realized.
Solomon reflects upon his life of hankering and asks:
"What has a man from the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity." -Eccl. 2:22-23
So many times I've been reminded of this: our identity does not come from the things we own or anything we have. It comes from having that relationship with Christ, and what he says about us.
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