Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!” [1 Kings 3.26]
While the story here is that the true mother of the child demonstrated genuine love for the child, I cannot help but wonder at the attitude of the other woman. I find it disturbing that a human could agree to the slaughter of the child that she supposedly wanted for her own.
What is revealed here is true wickedness. The mother of the dead child did not really want a child as much as she wanted what was not hers. She wanted what the other mother had... It wouldn't have mattered if it was a child or a puppy or a yellow bicycle.
While I believe most of us would like to think we would be like the mother of the living child, filled with true love, I am afraid we might need to review our motives further. I fear we are not as godly as we think we are and that much of our motivation in life is driven by covetousness.
Covetousness is a nasty thing.
Each of us should carefully examine our motives in every thing we do to be certain that our motives are born of genuine love and not covetousness.
Father, help us to see ourselves in truth.
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