What Does Love Look Like?
“Love Is Not Covetous”
In a culture driven by comparison and consumption, the apostle’s quiet command might be one of the most revolutionary calls of love in our time:
“Love is not covetous.”
– a heart saying
“Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have…”
– Hebrews 13:5
These words do more than caution us against materialism — they speak to the deep interior posture of love that is peacefully contented with the gifts God has entrusted to us.
Love Doesn’t Grasp — It Rests
Covetousness is not just about wanting someone else’s money, platform, voice, beauty, influence, marriage, ministry, or gifting. It’s a subtle ache that says:
“What I’ve been given is not enough.”
But love — true, godly love — rests in enough.
It does not measure itself against others or silently accuse God of holding out. It does not resent the success of a friend or wither under the weight of another’s anointing. Instead, love celebrates — and then returns home to the quiet garden of its own calling.
The Gift of Your Own Measure
The most authentic ministries, songs, and lives are not manufactured by ambition but shaped by contentment. The Holy Spirit does not anoint our comparison — He anoints our surrender.
To live free of covetousness is to trust that your measure is your mission. You do not need to inflate it, market it, or hoard it. You only need to tend it — and thank God for it.
And when we do? We find that love isn’t something we strive to perform.
It’s something that flows from hearts at rest.
A Simple Prayer
“Lord, teach me to love like You —
Not by reaching for what isn’t mine,
but by honoring what You’ve freely given.
Teach me the joy of being peacefully content.
Let love displace all striving.
And may I become a witness — not to what I lack,
but to what You’ve abundantly entrusted to me.”