Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Worldly Attachments”.
Covetousness is a way of defining ourselves and giving ourselves value and meaning based upon possessions especially when comparing them with the possessions of others. It is a primary driver of many of the social, political and economic ills and disparities in human society.
Covetousness disregards the needs and feelings of others and instead focuses on a vain jealousy in acquiring things or attachments that is based on inordinate or excessive need to have and possess to validate one’s feelings of worth in relation to others.
Job is a prime example of someone who had many attachments because he was a wealthy man. Besides sons and daughters, he had houses and servants and much livestock. Yet, he was considered perfect and upright before God.
Why? Because he didn’t allow his possessions to interfere with his relationship with God. After Job lost all he had including his children, he continued worshipping God as he had before. He acknowledged that everything he possessed was a blessing and gift from God including his own flesh and blood.
God gave it all and God could take it all. But it will not alter his devotion and reverence for God. Job realized that it wasn’t his possessions that defined him, gave his life worth, meaning and purpose. But what mattered to him was his relationship with God.
Throughout human history and especially today, people define themselves not by their relationship with God, but by what they own or don’t own. They are constantly looking for the next possession in order to move up the perceived social and economic ladder.
They are constantly comparing themselves with what others possess as a measure of how well or not well they are doing. Instead of just being thankful for what’s on their own plates, they are constantly looking to see what is on the plates of others.
Depending on what they see, they will leave and abandon what they have in order to get what they don’t have often at the expense of those who don’t have and the breaking of the commandments of God.
We become attached to people and things as a substitute of establishing and maintaining a right relationship with God because it is those people and things we allow to define us and give us meaning and worth rather than our Creator and Eternal God.
In the end, all that matters and counts will be our relationship with God. We came into this world naked, without anything and that is the way we will leave regardless of our much we have managed to attach to ourselves.
This is why it is vital that we see everything as expendable, temporary and nothing we must have or need. For when we stand naked before God in the end as we were in the beginning, all that will remain is our relationship with Him, be it right, wrong or indifferent.
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Pastor Jordan
