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Feeling Envious?


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“Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.”
Ecclesiastes 4:4

It is a fact that we don’t always get what we want. Sometimes even when we already have almost all the good things there will always be something you do not have that unfortunately, you will see in other people. The initial reaction to this is envy. We became envious because we think that life is unfair. Others may think that it isn’t envy, its motivation. Because we see what our neighbors have over us, we tend to do everything just to acquire what others have or what others had become that we envied. And then, we call it “AMBITIONS.”


Isn't it wrong? That we replace envy, by the word Ambition? Ambitions are strong desires to do or to achieve something while envy is a painful desire on what others have. When you want something and you do everything to reach it because others have it and it is painful for you to see it enjoyed by somebody else, that’s envy, my dear. Envy is meaningless, chasing the wind, chasing something you can’t ever chase. Even if you do get what you want, you’ll never be contented. It is not the will of God in our lives. The Lord wants to give us love, joy and peace. And having envy in our lives would stop us from having the joy in seeing beautiful things that God gave us, having the peace of being contented and experiencing the love of God in our lives. Stop reaching what others have, those are not real dreams. Seek the will of God in your life, live our lives to the fullest by seeing what we already have than looking for things that we don’t.

Success isn’t becoming greater than somebody else. It is becoming the best in what God wants us to be. Stop feeling envious on what others have. And see that you have more than what you think you have!
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