IS ENVY AN OLD FRIEND OR A BEATEN ENEMY

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“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” (Proverbs 14:30)

We have all learned the best unlearned art of envy and painted some pretty terrible pictures under its direction and thats for sure.

And when we have done so we have been the fool trying to wear a crown when it was actually a dunce cap.

There was a farm not far from where I had one of my first pastorates and on this farm they had a donkey; and one day it got me to thinking about the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem and whether or not he may have been envious about all the crowd praising Jesus.  “After all,” he may have thought, “I am the one carrying him.  I certainly deserve some praise.”

And I looked down at the Bible on the corner of my desk and I thought of all the examples of envy just beneath its cover.  Cain and Abel and envy causing a murder.  With Christ and the Chief Priest and envy causing a crucifixion.

And in the midst of the sadness my thinking caused I began to give thanks for two solutions for solving the sickness of envy.

Keep your mouth shut Neil.  I learned that the hard way and I am still learning but it is true.  Don’t put other people down as a way of lifting myself up.

And, yes, get to know the person I may have some envy toward, better. 

Train myself to admire a trait or talent they have that I don’t rather make myself ill because I don’t have them.

Envy really isn’t one of my problems and it may well not be one of yours…but envy is a hoverer…hovering and hovering and hovering just waiting for its chance.

And I looked at the corner of the table and put my hand on the Bible and held it there for it also taught to me love my neighbor as myself, which after all is a pretty good antidote for envy…now isn’t it.

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