Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the Lord.It’s easy to look at what others have and be envious. Especially if you are feeling short on blessings yourself.
You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed. (Proverbs 23:17-18)
And there is nothing wrong with possessions as long as the possessions do not rule you. They should belong to you, not you belonging to them.
It makes it doubly hard when you go without and there are those who are openly sinful, openly evil, openly rebellious to the things of the Lord who seem to have all they want or need. Especially, again, when you are doing without many of the basic needed things.
They have several houses on several continents and you do not have a place of your own. They have several cars and planes and such, and you have an old broken down car. They dress their children in expensive designer clothes and you wear clothing that is several years old. They eat gourmet food and you have trouble buying necessities.
It makes it worse when you see them living a life of debauchery and evil, yet they seem so blessed.
It is blatantly unfair and you know it, but it is the way it is.
The key is to remember what is important in life. So many of these people have nothing but the stuff. They do not have God in their lives, they have no real hope or even real happiness. They go from broken relationship to broken relationship, never seeming to achieve what you have achieved so firmly: that of a good marriage with a good mate.
The desire to get more gets stronger and stronger until before long they are in tax trouble because they spent everything on stuff and didn’t pay what they needed to pay. Life is spent fueled by drugs and alcohol or sex or whatever with no end in sight. They grow old and ugly from the multiple plastic surgeries bought to try to keep themselves young and pretty.
Hard as it is to believe when you are living a life of deprivation, but these people are many
times miserable, without friends, without love, without happiness.
The child of god has the internal joy and peace that comes from service in the kingdom of the Almighty God. And if they get to really looking at it, there is more to life than stuff.
The reward is greater for the child of God, although it is delayed.
Sometimes that is hard to keep in your sights. But it is absolutely true.
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