Though I am not familiar with the name, there is a disease that rots every bone in a person’s body. There is also a spiritual disease that does the same. “Envy [is] the rottenness of the bones.” This was the cause of Saul’s demise. He couldn’t stand to see, or hear, of someone doing something better than he.
How we need to emulate “the man Moses [who] was very meek, above all the men which were upon the earth.” When Eldad and Medad prophesied in the camp, Joshua asked Moses to forbid them. And what was the great prophet’s reply? “Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!”
‘Tis very hard to behold our own gifts without pride, and the gifts of others without envy.
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