Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters. We devote ourselves to the Lord, daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, indeed.

We're picking back up a new morning mercies,

and Tori's just gonna take it from here. Yes, yeah, let's do it. It says this.

Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when in fact you and I deserve nothing.

Envy is self-focused and self-righteous.

It inserts you into the center of your world. It makes it all about you. It tells you that you

deserve what you don't deserve. Envy is expectant and demanding. Envy tells you

that you are someone you aren't and you are entitled to what is not rightfully yours.

Envy cannot celebrate the blessing of another because it tells you that you are more deserving.

Envy tells you that you have earned what you could never earn.

The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.

Envy forgets who you are, forgets who God is, and is confused about what life is all about.

Yet having said all of that,

the fact is that all of us struggle with envy somehow, some way, and at some time.

We're jealous that that person next to us has achieved the financial

success that we have never enjoyed. We wish our marriage was as happy as that of

our friends at church.

We wonder why we've been saddled with the job we have when that other guy has such a fulfilling

career.

We're envious of the other person's small group, which seems to be such a loving community.

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