We’re taught to covet from the day we’re born.
“For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.”
– Psalm 84:10 NKJV
Is God able to bless you? “For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.” – 2 Chronicles 24:24
She died in 1951, but still lives! “He who eats this bread will live forever.” – John 6:58 NKJV
He was overwhelmed and overmatched. “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.’” – 2 Chronicles 20:15 NKJV
God often steps in. “‘Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me.’ And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.” – 2 Chronicles 11:4
Everything that could have gone wrong did not. “You shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21 (NKJV)
[Philippians 2:15] That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.