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No Envy

Human nature always wants to have what others have. A person that is envious is given to and controlled by the urge to possess what others have. If such a person has a wife, he begins to wish his wife was like other women regardless of how lovely she is.

What envy does:

1. Envy makes blind.

An envious person can not see any good about what he has or who he is. He is blind to his good and wide awake to his faults.

2. Envy initiates negative thinking.

An envious person is plagued by bad thoughts particularly towards the person envied. An envious person often unconsciously anticipate bad news for others.

3. Envy provokes violent acts.

It can lead to a person physically assaulting another. When a person seeks constantly  to pick a quarrel with you without a cause, it is a strong indication of envy.

4. Envy leads to frustration.

Eventually when an envious person cannot meet up to the standard he pursues he becomes permanently depressed. It is even more heart wrenching for him when the envied party continues to prosper.

Cure for Envy:

1. Pray.
Don't take it as something normal see it as it truly is - an attack of the enemy threatening to take one to hell.

2. Grow up
Sometimes the issue of envy has do with immaturity, we must come to terms with the fact that we cannot have everything.

3. Do the right thing
Rather than being envious of others, undertake a sincere study of the principles they adopt and follow them. If you apply the same principles correctly you will get the same results.

Shalom.
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