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Proverbs chapter 14 verse 30 says a tranquil heart gives life to the flesh but envy makes the bones rot I say that one more time

a tranquil heart gives life to the flesh but envy makes the bones rot. This picture of a

tranquil heart, a content heart, a heart that is content with what one has, that gives life to our flesh.

But then this picture of envy that causes our to our discontentment of wanting what others have.

Just think about your life.

Think about my life.

I think about my tendency to compare myself to others

in so many different ways to see somebody else and say,

oh, I wish I had that. Maybe it's a possession, maybe it's a particular gift.

It could be so many different things, but we look at others and we say,

oh, I would like this or I would like that.

Or my life would be different if I had this or if I had that.

Envy comes in so many different ways and it is so destructive the

Bible teaching here that it makes our bones rot. We need to be guarded from all

envy. We need a heart that's tranquil. Don't we all want a tranquil heart?

Like a peaceful heart, a content heart that's not constantly caught up in the quest for more or better or this or that

that we don't have. This goes totally against the grain of our culture which means we need to pray this continually.

So God, we want tranquil hearts, we want peaceful hearts, we want content hearts, we want to experience life in our flesh.

We don't want to be constantly looking to others to say, oh, we wish we had this or that. God, guard us from envy, we pray.

Guard us from this constant temptation to compare ourselves with others,

to size ourselves up with what we have compared with what others have with a longing

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