THE SOLUTION OF ENVY

We’ve spent this week looking at the subtle and destructive disease called ENVY. However, the cure to this virus is something so simple anyone can have it: GRATITUDE!

The solution is being grateful for yourself; AND also for that fellow that life has made your contemporary in one form or the other. Because it is difficult, almost impossible, to be grateful and envious at the same time.

Be Grateful For Your Life

Envy wants you to be bitter and resentful because of what you don’t have and blinds you to all that you do have. If you’re constantly conscious of the many blessings and graces you have, it’ll be more difficult for the Devil to lure you into his snare of Envy.

Believe me, you are much more endowed than you will ever know, whether it be in terms of resources, opportunities or relationships. There’s absolutely nothing you need to fulfil your glorious destiny that you don’t already have right now. Indeed, you’re meant to be the object of envy and not the other way round.

Be Grateful For Your Fellow

If you look around, you’ll see that there’s a lot of pain, poverty and sin in this world. So for every successful person in your circle: every intelligent, beautiful, rich, talented, anointed or otherwise endowed person close to you, know that that is one less person for you to worry about.

Thank God for them.

The dictionary antonym (opposite) of envy is GOODWILL. While envy is listed among the “works of the flesh” in Galatians 5, kindness (goodwill) is listed as the “fruit of the Spirit” (Gal 5:19-23). To always be on the ‘Spirit’ side of the line, an attitude of GRATITUDE for what we have, and GOODWILL to others who are just as blessed is all we need.

AMEN.

I appreciate all the feedback and comments sent throughout the week.

May the LORD continue to bless and prosper all that concerns you in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN