[color=#006600][/color] Covetousness is linked
with the oldest sin in
history, and is still the
downfall of many
today. Satan probably
had Eve walking around
a tree looking at the
fruit until she could no
longer resist. She took
of it and plunged the
whole human race into
sin. Lot looked over the
well-watered plans of
Jordan and soon pitched
his tent toward Sodom
and, in the end, barely
escaped with his life.
Achan saw among the
spoils of Jericho a
goodly Babylonish
garment, two hundred
shekels of silver, and a
wedge of gold; he took
them, but as a result
his whole household
was stoned. Gehazi
saw the gifts of
Naaman and ran after
them, but ended up
with the leprosy of
Naaman. Judas had his
eyes fixed upon money
and sold his Lord for
thirty pieces of silver,
but ended his life by
committing suicide. Is it
any wonder that we
are instructed: “Love
not the world, neither
the things that are in
the world. If any man
love the world, the love
of the Father is not in
him. For all that is in the
world, the lust of the
flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the
world” (I [John:2:15-16]).