Deuteronomy 5:21
"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Gosh I'm really terrible at keeping my eyes on my own green plot of land. To me, there is really a lot of truth in the saying that "the grass seems greener on the other side".
Here's why. The past month, I received news of friends who got sudden windfalls of new jobs that seemingly dropped onto their laps and it came with nice fat pay increases and titles. Somehow, it invokes the inner green monster in me as I can't help but compare. Suddenly my green patch of life seem to be filled with ugly cow grass and my neighbours look like a hill of lush, soft carpet grass.
Not that my life is miserable to the dumps, but there's this part of me that never seems to be satisfied for the nice things of life- money, position, perks, travel benefits, free products. Since the pursuit of the finer things in life doesn't really end, and only warrants a sinful lust for more, may I learn to be contented with the grass of my own pastures.
M.
