Joel Kwesi Baidoo

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Exodus 20:17) The last of the ten commandments warns us against covetousness! To covet is to enviously wish for or long after what someone else has.  God is not against us aiming for or desiring the best things of this life. He even promises to grant the desires of our hearts… "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." (Psalms 37:4) Not all desires are evil, but covetousness is a negative desire, in that it often involves feeling more deserving of a particular thing than its current owner. It breeds an ill emotion towards people who have what we wish for. If you are not yet convinced of how dangerous covetousness is, remember that it was the cause of the first murder in human history. As of today, it is still the root cause of many wars, murde...

"I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me." (Proverbs 8:17) The book of Proverbs is mainly a projection of divine wisdom for everyday life. In chapter 8 in particular, wisdom is now personified and its characteristics expounded.  Campbell Morgan made this assertion about the wisdom that is projected in Proverbs 8: “There is nothing greater or grander in all the Biblical literature, as setting forth the beauty and grace of that wisdom which has the fear of Jehovah as its chief part.” One of the key characteristics of wisdom is a direct quote from the personified wisdom Himself that "I love those who love me." The man who loves wisdom will pursue it in books, seminars, courses, videos, situations, and practically everywhere. Just as Albert Einstein once said, "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." Wisdom makes Himself available to such people for He says, "Those who seek me find me." Don...