What is eating you up?


 Voracious appetite

A lot of diets are happening these days.  We want to be trimmed for our summer looks.  We try to suppress our appetite and look at our neighbour waistline and wish ours was thinner.  We do exercise and work hard on our bodies or get discouraged by our friend’s  high expectations of us.  We just don’t measure up to society’s level of expertise.  Unfortunately, what I have described happens often.

We look outward for solutions to our problems, but, we are being eaten up by envy from the inside.

 What is eating you up?

 Come on, let’s be real? Do you have friends or family members who are doing better than you in life?  How do you feel about them?  Is that envy eating you up?  There is so much envy in this world.  Nations at war with others, for what?  Families fighting amongst themselves, is that not envy?  What about divorces?  Envy and jealousy are such an ugly thing.  I am not talking about the jealousy that protects relationships.  What is eating you on the inside?  Is it anger?

 The Bible says that a peaceful heart brings healing, but jealousy or envy is like a cancer rotting the bones (Proverbs 14:30) that is my paraphrase of it based on different translations to show you how ugly envy really is.  Have you ever seen a cancer? I heard it was a sickening looking thing.

 What about your diet?

 Jesus was right all along, it is not what you eat that is corrupting you, but what is in you and coming out of you through your mouth.  Try changing your words without changing your heart, it is virtually impossible.  The sins that you need to take care of is in your heart.  Society has got it all wrong giving you a diet for this and that.  Try praying for this and for that and you will find out soon enough that your paycheck is enough.  Rather, you have envy eating you up and you can be satisfied with just, Jesus.  He is the Only One who will satisfy and fulfill you. Envy is a lie and could destroy you in the end. You need help! Please leave a comment below.

 

What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth; this is what defiles them.’ (Matthew 15:11)

 

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