I heard someone say one time, “the man who makes $30K a year thinks the man who makes $60K is materialistic. And the man who makes $60K a year thinks that the man who makes $100K a year is materialistic, and so on and so forth.”

The fact is, materialism begins where your income ends. If the man who makes $30K is living and compounding credit card debt because he had to have the 42″ plasma, and the guy who makes $100K a year just paid cash for his two week cruise to the Bahamas, then which man is materialistic?

I was thinking about this today, and how we like to put other people’s personal business in our life and criticize their life style. We’re so hypocritical and rarely want to tell people how much we make a year. It’s easy for others to live in a glass house, but not us.

Maybe this is why God slipped “don’t covet” in at the end of the Big 10. Envy is a deep issue that may not be taught on enough.

10. “Thou shall not covet.”