Thanksgiving and Christmas Season and Excessive Desire
Soon, we are going to be gathering with family and/or friends and celebrating a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas season. It is a time where we give each other gifts and spend quality time with one another. There have already been Christmas items in the stores and sales throughout this time of year. There are neighbors who have a lot of Christmas lights, and those people who have next to none, and some in between. The ads tell you to get more and more stuff such as Christmas decorations and ornaments. It got me to thinking about how excessive we can get. One of the ten commandments is the following: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor" (Exodus 20:17 NASB1995). Paul, in Romans, wrote, "What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the La...