Lust

Tuesday March 21st Exodus 20: 16 No lies about your neighbor. 17 No lusting after your neighbor's house--or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's. This is the covet thing that gets us all in trouble. The problem is that our economy is based on getting people to want something they do not have, or even need and then selling it to them. That is what advertising is all about. And if we don’t want what or neighbor has, we want something better. What God is trying to warn us about is how easy it is to move from lusting to action. It doesn’t matter if it is drug addict, David and Bathsheba, Enron or the couple that lives at the end of the street, in the movement from lust into action we are all capable of mowing down anyone or anything in the way of something we lust after. It is all too easy to justify our actions and not even see our ethics or the other guy lying in the dust when we are through. Lust is the desire for salt from someone who is dying of thrust. In the end we only make things worse for ourselves.