Love does not envy meaning it does not want what it doesn’t have. How many so called friends secretly envy the relationship, success and happiness of another person they class as a friend? They appear to be happy for them but deep down they resent them for what they have.
Last year I learned what envy really means. It doesn’t just simply want what the other person has; it also wants them to lose what they have. Even among families, work colleagues and church members this kind of evil, (yes I see envy as evil) exists. How many problems has envy created in your family, work place, among ‘friends’ and in society? It has gone as far as lead an envious person to commit murder.
“For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work”. – James 3:16.
I remember a friend once said how pointless it is to envy what someone else has because we have no idea what they went through to get to where they are now. Some people have had to fight their way up to the top, having come from turbulent upbringings and unfavourable circumstances. Their hard work, sacrifice and determination led them to their success and happiness. And there are others who have deceived, stolen, degraded themselves and God knows what else they did to get the fame or career they have today.
So envying someone is a fools game and just brings torment and pain to the person who envious others. I know because I used to be an envious person and it cultivated so much hate and resentment towards those I envied that I had no peace inside of me!
Where there is envy, love is not there.
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