"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"

Matthew 6:19-23

The ability to discern between good and evil is determined by the things on which we focus our spiritual eyes. If we set our eyes on money, we may have a good life for awhile, but our judgment will become clouded.

Food, money, power – wherever we focus our spiritual eyes determines what we desire, and whether our lives will be filled with light or with darkness.

There is a cure for covetousness:

Think of something to give instead of something to get.

Our Daily Bread – November 26, 2004