Thanksgiving: Contentment over Covetousness
We come to a time of year where we emphasize “thanksgiving,” but we still may be inappreciative for what we already have. As consumers, we can become inappreciative and ungrateful to God. We become covetous instead of thankful, and we lose our contentment. Man is covetous (ungrateful) by nature. Jesus said, “20“…What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, … coveting, ….” (Mark 7:20–22). Paul also says that a “debased mind is filled with … covetousness…” (Romans 1:28–29). The dictionary defines it as “excessive