Contentment is the key to overcoming covetousness. Jealousy and covetousness go hand in hand. Jealousy causes a person to be discontent with what she has and covetousness causes her to want what her sister has.
I was reading the below scripture and it just stood out to me that contentment is the key to overcoming covetousness:
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have; for he hath said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. Hebrews 13:25
If we can become content where we are, we can overcome covetousness, which is a very strong desire for something that God has not said belongs to us. Usually, we began becoming covetous through comparing ourselves with what someone else has, but we have to be content with the path that God has given us to walk. Covetousness can lead to being possessive and controlling over something that the Lord has not given us. James says it best.
You lust and desire to have. You kill and covet yet you do not have because you ask not and when you do ask it is only to consume your lusts. You adulterous or idolatrous people (James 4:1-3).
We cannot make idols out of our desires seeking only to gratify them. We have to seek God sincerely even when it means denying ourselves and saying no to the things that we want. Let’s allow our focus to be on being content where we are. Where we know God has called us instead of acquiring what we think we want
To sum up what we have learned and gone over in this series on sisterhood, the key points have been:
- The importance of sisterhood
- Understanding rejection as a root to jealousy, competition, and spite that often separates women
- Self-love as a foundation to prevent such things starting with learning our worth and acceptance from God first
- Applying that love and worth toward ourselves and projecting that love onto others including our sisters
- Recognizing jealousy, and an inappropriate response to the emotion of jealousy versus humility that requires work.
- Loving our sisters through hard times such as when liking the same guy
- Contentment with ourselves appreciating the unique things about us that make us who we are
All of these things applied will help us to stand together as women of strength, love and dignity representing our God and maximizing our fullest potential as women. I hope everyone enjoyed this Series on Sisterhood as much as I did.Enjoy the finale video below:
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