Topic: “ENVY” – Daily Devotional By Dag Heward-Mills Ministry 27 January 2020

READ: Mark 15:1-20

“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones“ – Proverbs 14:30

Envy defined: Envy is a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another’s advantages, success and possessions.

Envy is a negative personal trait that destroys a person from within.

The Scripture calls it rottenness of the bones. Envious people are destroyed from within. They may have everything but are focused on what others have and what others are doing. Envious people are not content. They may look happy on the outside but their hearts are thinking about what others have and what others are doing.

Happiness to an envious person is about what another person has or does not have. They may live in the most beautiful castle, but once the person they fear is smiling in a grass hut somewhere else they are not happy.

A person consumed with envy is not happy because of his diseased soul. The soul of such a person is defective and the person is unwell. I have watched envious people live their lives as though they were on a crusade against their own personal happiness. They do not want to be happy! They only want to focus on the existence of another.

Accept your lot and focus on what God has done for you. Your envy is self-destructive and the cruelty of your envy is eating you up