Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we air the most popular episodes from the previous season.

One of the most consuming emotions is envy, and it feeds discontentment and dissatisfaction.

In this episode, escaping the envy trap, we'll revisit three ways that we can stop this

discouraging habit. Nobody needs this. Let's listen again.

Was someone given the job that you wanted and now you're unhappy because you thought you were better

suited for the position? And no matter how hard you're trying not to think about it, your mind keeps

replaying the painful tape? Or maybe a friend of

yours just had something fabulous happen in her life and you're wondering why she gets all the

fabulous while you get all the ordinary. You'd like to be happy for her, but you're stuck with the

feeling that she didn't deserve anything more. Doesn't she have enough? When would it be your

turn? Why were the great things happening to everyone but you? Are you looking at someone else's

life and thinking that they have what you want? If so, you're wrestling with envy. Envy will

keep you stuck in a competition that you can't win because

envy is never satisfied. Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with

Francie Taylor. Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion. Now, back to today's important study.

Understand that envy and jealousy are closely related, but envy usually involves our feelings about

someone else's appearance, position, or possessions, while jealousy is an emotion tied to our

own relationships, such as being jealous when another woman is trying to flirt with your husband.

That is a good kind of jealousy, which is protective and the watchful type. But there is a destructive

jealousy which imagines things that aren't really happening. We're not talking about jealousy in this

episode. We're talking about envy, but I wanted to just briefly describe those differences.

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