Paul Eldridge wrote, "What we have not, poisons what we have. . . Our urge to acquire things is due less to the passion to possess them, than to the vanity of feeling superior to those who envy our possession of them. . . Envy transmutes other people's base metal into gold. . . Our envy is the yeast that swells the fortune of others. . . No form of hatred is as keen as envy. It magnifies the importance of our enemy----and belittles our own."
James 3:14-16 says, "But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual and devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
Indeed envy is evil and has caused many a good man to fall. It can cause hatred of the one envied, and that is a dead action or reaction. The wages of sin is still death. Let's be careful to not allow envy into our lives, and if we find it there let's seek forgiveness, knowing that he is faithful and just to forgive our sins if we ask him.
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