The Sin of Greed

When Moses cried for help in the wilderness, the Lord gave this criterion: 'Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens' (Exodus 18:21). This group of men, who would later become elders, were to hate covetousness. Hate is a powerful emotion! We are to hate the essence of greed and unlawful desires and nail them to the cross, lest we find ourselves pursuing a temporal, earthly glory while forfeiting an eternal one.