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This is a great article that I really wanted to share.
I didn’t know where else to put it, so if this isn’t the right place, my apologies.
"…When we forget that God’s love for us is the root of our sense of worth and dignity, envy takes hold. Envy represents the twisting of our Divine Longing for Dignity. It tells us that our dignity is not rooted in God’s love for us, but rather in having, doing, and being everything that the people around us have, do, and are. Envy chains us to a treadmill that makes me run after everything that everyone else has so that I can feel “as worthwhile as” they are. The problems is, no matter what I acquire or achieve, either someone will always be further up the ladder or I will always run the risk of losing what I’ve accomplished and, by extension, what sense of dignity those accomplishments have afforded me. The more I give into envying someone else’s life, marriage, family, money, position, or anything else, the more I have separated myself from the experience of God’s love, which is the only true foundation on which my dignity can rest.
So when I am tempted to give into envy, how can I recover?
Green With Envy: 3 Steps to Rediscovering Your Worth in Christ
I didn’t know where else to put it, so if this isn’t the right place, my apologies.
"…When we forget that God’s love for us is the root of our sense of worth and dignity, envy takes hold. Envy represents the twisting of our Divine Longing for Dignity. It tells us that our dignity is not rooted in God’s love for us, but rather in having, doing, and being everything that the people around us have, do, and are. Envy chains us to a treadmill that makes me run after everything that everyone else has so that I can feel “as worthwhile as” they are. The problems is, no matter what I acquire or achieve, either someone will always be further up the ladder or I will always run the risk of losing what I’ve accomplished and, by extension, what sense of dignity those accomplishments have afforded me. The more I give into envying someone else’s life, marriage, family, money, position, or anything else, the more I have separated myself from the experience of God’s love, which is the only true foundation on which my dignity can rest.
So when I am tempted to give into envy, how can I recover?
- Recenter the Battle. When we give into envy we tend to beat up on ourselves. “Look at how pathetic I am? What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I just be grateful for what I have?” None of this works. The only way to beat envy is to identify the threat to my divine longing for dignity. Ask yourself, “Why do I feel my dignity is threatened?” “What is making me feel unworthy of God’s love?”…"
Green With Envy: 3 Steps to Rediscovering Your Worth in Christ
