The admonition is exclusively to make certain that we do not increase our worldly position. One major factor of the lives of the Apostles is that not one of them died with any worldly estate or treasures. The gods of America have Fiberglas or metal bodies, glass, wool, silk or electronic variations. Covetousness is not found in our checkbooks or our bank accounts. Our material blessings have nothing to do with covetousness.
Covetousness is found in the heart.
We can be possessed by our possessions or our possessions can be slaves to the cause of Christ. The truth of God rings again and again. Man's folly continues to show the shallowness of his own plans and gains. You KNOW it can and does. Only the guidance of our Lord Jesus is capable of steering us on the proper path to avoid the pitfalls.