How Life Feels: Envy

Envy’s greatest work is to produce discouragement, but we rarely see the connection. The secret to understanding envy is to see what envy exposes in us. The very thing/person/condition/station we are so envious of IS an IDOL of our own making! Our heart places that person/thing/condition in the place of God. “If only I had THAT, then I’d be satisfied!” And with that, envy pounds us down with the hammer of idolatry.