Martin Luther. He said that our basic human problem is that our hearts are “curved in on themselves.” His diagnosis holds today. The person we are most concerned about in the world is our self. We are all self-obsessed. The root of covetousness is selfishness. Why do we act like this? When God made us did he deliberately construct us to be more concerned for ourselves than anyone else? Or is it some accidental design flaw with our species? No, we can’t blame God for it. At the beginning of the Bible,