When God saves a man, He creates in him something that wasn’t there before. That man receives a new inner man, made in the image of God’s righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4:24). One of the ways we can think about sanctification is aligning our actions more and more with that inner man that God gave to us. We believers must continually ask how to go about putting on this new man in the many aspects of our lives. One area we must address is the mind.

God is not our enemy. When we are tempted, when evil solicits us to sin, God is not the One doing it. In James 1, the first preacher of the Jerusalem church goes into great detail to

God did not make every occasion identical. Part of maturity, in fact, is learning how to appropriately behave in the many different settings of life. Funeral manners, Sunday morning worship manners, family game night manners, husband-wife date night manners, and business meeting manners are all very different. God designed the world with that variety.

Returning to the biblical instruction concerning coveting, here is the summary: no Christian should be covetous, and churchgoers who are known for it are in serous spiritual danger and should be avoided. Remember, however, that covetousness begins as an inward sin that. How can we intercept covetousness before a friend has to confront us about the condition of our heart?