Coveting blinds us to the hardships of our neighbor and instead focuses in on the ways the Lord is blessing her with what we desire. Her hardships will seem light in your eyes – how can she have any significant struggle when she has the one thing you desire? Coveting is the antithesis of Christ’s command to ‘love your neighbor as yourself,’20 because our neighbor becomes our enemy simply by possessing what we desire. We cannot love well those whose lives or belongings we covet.
