Envy and Jealousy, & Rejection

Today as I read a section in A MORE EXCELLENT WAY, Dr. Henry W. Wright is talking about Envy and Jealousy, & Rejection.  You know, we know this behavior is bad but we seem to let things like this slip in anyway.   As we look at what it means more closely then we really get the message, why we need to stay away from these attitudes.  

Envy and Jealousy is when you take your eyes of of God and fix them upon a person, a place or a thing.  That will become the object that is the source of our value and fulfillment.   This is idolatry.  Whatever you worship is your god.  thus, God, in his jealousy, will release you to your own devices without His protection.  Example…..if money is your god, then money will have to protect you.

Envy is a sin because you compare yourself to others which brings discontentment.  Envy and Jealousy really are subtle forms of unbelief and doubt.  You really do not trust God to provide for you.

Rejection will lead us to a desperate search, striving for the love that will complete us.  This love cannot be found in people, places or things, but only in God.  God says that we are loved, adopted, and accepted. We all know the deep sting of rejection, because we are all born with an innate loving for love and acceptance.  No matter who we have or how we are accepted we are always going to have that longing for God.  But when we don’t have God and we have that sting of rejection and discontentment.