Emotions: Envy

1. Webster defines
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   as a feeling of discontent or anger aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck.
2. In “verb form,” it’s described as the desire to
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   a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else).
3. Covetousness - closely related to greed - focuses on
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   , while envy focuses on the
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   of the things.
4. Covetousness says, “I wish I had
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   things.”
   Envy says, “I wish I had your things, and you had
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   !”
5. ENVY basically says, “I must
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   … but you must
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   !”
6. Envy will keep us from
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   and being grateful for the things we have, and from
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   who we really are in CHRIST.
7. Envy
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   people into taking upon themselves a “spirit of entitlement!”
8. ENVY says: “I like what you’ve got; I don’t like the fact that you have it; and I
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   it!”
9. PRIDE says, “I deserve things more than they do, because everyone knows that I’m a
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   than they are.”
10. Envy is a major cause of
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    and self- contempt.
11. Those who envy are
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    happy with who they are or what they have. They hate themselves for not being the people they envy, and for not possessing what the envied possess.
12. ENVY
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    our ability to examine ourselves.
13. ENVY cripples our
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    in God and our relationships.
14. ENVY cripples our
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    for authority and leaders.
15. ENVY cripples our ability to
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    what we have.
16. ENVY cripples one’s ability to
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    what one has, leaving one “never satisfied!”
17. ENVY cripples our
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    growth.
18. When we’re confronted with the “Evil Trio” you must:
    a) Realize first of all, that God WANTS the very
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    for you.
    b) Secondly,
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    yourself of resentment against God.
    c) Intentionally
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    a lifestyle of contentment.
    d) Choose to
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    instead of lust.
    e)
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    for those we envy
    f) Pray for an
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    of your feelings, and then recognize them for
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    they are.
    g) Ask yourself
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    you are feeling jealous, envious or covetous.
19. TRUTHFULLY, in the end, all the things, experiences, and people that we suppose will make us happy, really don’t! Because real joy and happiness only comes through an honest relationship with God, through faith in His only begotten Son, and learning to be content with
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    we are and
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    we have.