Envy – Part 3

Wild at Heart

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The breeding ground for envy is "The Triumph of the Offended Self". John and Blaine Eldredge reveal the power of choosing love over the self-life.

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0:00.0	when fishing with Morgan yesterday. And background of the story is, I don't know that I got him
0:07.9	into it, but I certainly have been kind of his mentor in it over the years. And I've got the law of
0:14.1	10,000 hours going for me in fly fishing. I just put in a lot of time over the year. So when I wasn't catching anything, you know,
0:23.6	I looked down the river and I'm feeling bad for Morgan. I'm like, oh man, if I'm not doing well,
0:29.3	you know, he's definitely not doing well. And we kind of hit that midway point where you come
0:35.8	back together and connect and sit down at the
0:37.9	truck and have lunch and figure out what you're going to do for the rest of the day. And I'm like,
0:42.0	hey, so how's it going? You know, ready to share my stories of woe that not only did I not
0:48.4	catch a fish. I didn't see a fish. I didn't scare a fish. I didn't, you know, nothing. It was just barren on a, frankly, a weekday that should have been pretty phenomenal. And he's like, oh, great. Oh, it was awesome, awesome time. And he doesn't know yet what I'm going to share. So he's all buoyant and like, yeah, you know, caught a number of fish. Some of them were really
1:11.6	fun to catch. And, and then this one really big one at the end. And what, I am so, I am so
1:20.3	embarrassed to admit this, but I had a really hard time rejoicing with those who rejoice. Yes.
1:28.3	The instant thing that reared itself in my heart was, what about me?
1:35.3	God, universe, world, you know, river.
1:39.3	Well, what about me?
1:43.3	Welcome back to the Ransomed Heart podcast.
1:46.8	John and Blaine Eldridge here, picking up in the third part of a series on Envy.
1:55.6	Really glad to have you with us.
1:57.5	Really, really important series.
1:59.7	Got some killer things for you today. If you haven't tracked with us. Really, really important series. Got some killer things for you today. If you haven't
2:03.3	tracked with us on this particular series, really want to encourage you afterwards to go back
2:09.6	and pick up that podcast or maybe pause here and go listen to the first too because we are
2:14.8	building through some thoughts and laying some foundation
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