Journey Of Life Lutheran Church

If greed keeps you from enjoying a glass of wine because you want a better one, envy keeps you from enjoying a glass of wine because someone else has a better one. In early stage envy, you believe that if you had what someone else has, you would be happy. In late stage envy, you feel happy when someone else loses what they had. Envy will rot your life and your peace from the inside out. Envy keeps us from enjoying the gifts in our lives, causes division, leads to bad judgment and robs you of peace. So what do we do? First, listen to your envy because it comes from inside you. What is your envy telling you about you? Then employ the antidotes to envy: the scriptures, remembering your identity in Christ, rejecting altogether the idea of comparison, serving others with your gives, and remembering that our whole life is really about God and love.