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Proverbs chapter 14 verse 30

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

What a powerful image!

Like a tranquil heart giving life but envy making our bones rot

envy looking at others and wanting what they have instead of what you have.

Walking around and thinking, I wish I looked like that person, I wish I had that possession,

I wish I had this or that.

Oh, this is a recipe for making your bones rot.

I just think about envy and pride how they go together.

C.S. Louis' chapter on pride and mere Christianity is so helpful.

Because he talks about how pride is really grounded in a

in a competition and sense of envy because nobody's proud because they're fast.

We're proud because we're faster than somebody else.

If we were slower than somebody else,

we would not be proud of how fast we are.

We only have pride when we look at others,

we compare ourselves, and we we think I'm better.

So we get proud if we're better, or we get discouraged if we're not as good.

We're not proud because we're attractive in some way. We're proud because we think we're

more attractive than that person. If we saw somebody who was more attractive than us

in particular way, we would not have pride for being attractive. We're not proud because we're smart. We're proud because we're smart because we're

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