One thing
that does not envy
1
Corinthians 13:4
Love is
patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Instants of
envy
Genesis 4:4
4 But Abel
brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked
with favor on Abel and his offering,
5 but on
Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and
his face was downcast.
6 Then the
LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
7 If you do
what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right,
sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”
8 Now Cain
said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out to the field.” And while they were in
the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 16:5-6
5 Then Sarai
said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my
servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me.
May the LORD judge between you and me.”
6 “Your
servant is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.”
Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
Genesis 21:9-10
9 But Sarah
saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
10 and she
said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave
woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
Nothing in Between
“I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6,
NKJV
Jesus leaves us with two options. Accept him as God or reject
him as a megalomaniac. There is no third alternative . . .
Call him crazy or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud
or declare him to be God. Walk away from him or bow before him, but don’t play
games with him. Don’t call him a great man. Don’t list him among decent folk .
. . He is either God or godless. Heaven sent or hell born. All hope or all hype.
But nothing in between. – Max Lucado
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