The Trap of Comparison
Revive Our Hearts
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's Melissa Kruger. |
| 0:02.0 | I need so much more relationally than my husband can provide. |
| 0:06.0 | He is never going to be enough. |
| 0:08.0 | And if I want him to be enough, I'm never going to enjoy him. |
| 0:11.0 | And so cultivating that relationship with the Lord through the word and prayer, |
| 0:16.0 | remembering how deeply loved I am by him, for me, that's the only way to not put more on other relationships. |
| 0:24.9 | This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walkal Moon, author of Holiness for Thursday, August 17, 2017. |
| 0:34.7 | Music 2017. If you don't truly trust God, you'll find yourself looking for contentment and |
| 0:48.0 | satisfaction in other places. And that's where envy and discontentment begin to take root. |
| 0:55.4 | Yesterday, Aaron Davis talked about all of this and more with Melissa Kruger. |
| 0:59.5 | Melissa is the author of The Envy of Eve, finding contentment in a covetous world. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, I know we all feel a strong pull toward comparing ourselves with others, whether it's on social media |
| 1:12.4 | or just in one-on-one interaction. But as you listen to today's conversation, I hope you'll |
| 1:18.1 | discover the joy and the peace that come from replacing envy with contentment. Now let's listen to |
| 1:24.9 | this conversation that Erin and Melissa recorded at the Gospel Coalition |
| 1:28.7 | Women's Conference. So you dedicate the second half the book to kind of these categories of |
| 1:34.0 | coveting, and I thought that was helpful. Maybe it's because I'm a type AA personality. I like |
| 1:38.9 | lists I can check, but let's just walk through them. So you talk about coveting money and possessions, |
| 1:45.1 | and you get this list in the book that I think is so helpful. |
| 1:48.8 | I'm just gonna read through it. |
| 1:51.6 | Of different truths we might believe. |
| 1:53.9 | That money equals security. |
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