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Envy is more than wanting what someone else has. As one writer puts it, “Envy is feeling bitter when others have it better.” It begins quietly, often with insecurity. Then insecurity leads to comparison, comparison grows into resentment, resentment devolves into jealousy, and jealousy can create its own kind of madness.

Proverbs 14:30 says, “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Envy is a happiness killer because it turns our eyes away from God’s love, away from gratitude, and away from who God has made us to be. But freedom begins when we own up to envy, refuse to feed it, find our worth in God, take pleasure in who He made us to be, and learn to rejoice in the success of others.