Thou shalt not covet…any thing that is thy neighbour’s (Exodus 20:17).
There are several phrases concerning coveting. You are not to covet your neighbor’s house, nor his wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is his. Much of the evil in the world is caused by wanting something to which one is not entitled. Moses knew what covetousness does to us in what we call today the unconscious or the subconscious.
Coveting affects the soul of man. Even if your coveting never leads you to take anything that does not belong to you, it undermines and ultimately rots your soul. It shuts you off from God. Why? Because to covet something means that you do not understand the Law of Being. You do not understand that whatever you are getting or lacking is the out-picturing and expression of your consciousness. Until you understand that you cannot be saved.
There is not anything in the world that you ever conceived of that God has not got in abundance. God’s supply is infinite, and to envy someone else because he seems to have more is to deny your own contact with God.
To recognize and accept God’s limitless abundance is not an easy task. Firstly, it means that any sense of lacking comes from within us and is basically arises from our separating ourselves from God. That usually occurs when we want something that is not according to God’s will. Secondly, it places the responsibility for correcting this on us. When we place God’s will over our own and follow God’s will, everything we need will be supplied. Lack occurs when we seek our will in opposition to God’s.
So today, let us be grateful for that which we have and for that which we do not have. Then our gratitude will rise, lifting us and all around us into the Eden God created for us.
Rising,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
Great post! It’s amazing how, the more we are thankful for what we already have, the more blessings that show up in our lives. Then there is no need and no desire to covet : )