Aunt Isharah’s ladies’ class lesson this past Sunday afternoon was on covetousness, and the way the Devil can trap us in it without our even realizing it. One of the points she made that was very thought provoking was based on the example of the Laodiceans:

Revelation 3:14-19

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of…