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Live Free with Josh Howerton

The Comparison Trap | Ep. 306 | Monday, April 8, 2024

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Envy is resenting God’s goodness in other people’s lives while ignoring His goodness in yours. Envy is found in multiple lists of sins throughout the New Testament, including right next to murder and drunkenness. It rots our bones and robs our joy. Comparison never leads anywhere good, but gratitude for God’s goodness leads to life. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

0:08.6

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

0:15.2

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

0:20.6

For more digital content to

0:22.6

feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe. Church slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to

0:28.5

today's devotional. Hey, happy Monday, everybody. Hope you had a great weekend and that it included

0:33.8

worship and learning and rest and reflection and fun and family and connecting with God and other people.

0:41.5

Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive.

0:43.6

We're here Monday through Friday and we just want to stay connected to God throughout the week

0:47.7

and allow him to speak some wisdom, some truth, and some hope into our soul.

0:52.4

I'm Mike Bro, by the way, and tonight is the championship game

0:56.3

of the road to the final four. So who you got? Or maybe you could care less, but I love it.

1:02.5

And even though my brackets are completely busted, I will tune in and watch. Now, last week we

1:08.4

launched into a discussion about what could be called the fatal

1:12.1

four. And we began talking about four deadly enemies that could really take us out if we're not

1:17.9

aware and we don't go all the offensive to deal with them. We already talked about pride and

1:23.7

anger. And if you missed any of those episodes, you can go back and check them out. And today I want to talk about what I'm calling the number three seed in this deadly bracket.

1:32.7

I'm talking about envy.

1:34.5

Now, I'm sure I'm giving you this definition of envy before, but I need to be reminded of it often,

1:39.1

and the key to learning is repetition, so here you go again.

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Envy is resenting God's goodness in other people's

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lives while ignoring his goodness in mind. Envy is resenting God's goodness in other people's

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