we are looking here on the porch at how to have less stress and the fact that you need to check your heart and some attitudes that you need to watch out for.
first of all watch out for the attitude of pride. that’s the attitude of “i can do it all.”
another hard issue is the issue of envy. that’s the attitude, “i can be it all.” proverbs 14.30 (niv) warns us about envy, a heart at peace gives life to the body but envy rots the bones. that’s quite a picture.
GOD has given all of us enough time to be the person HE’s made us to be. so we’re trying to be that person but then we notice another person who’s not us, who’s different than us and we like the person they are and so we think, “i’d like to have their talent as well as my talent.” so we try, in envy, to take their talent in too. then we notice a person who’s getting a lot of notice for what they’re doing. we envy that and think, “i’d like to be them too.” we try to take their thing into our lives as well as our thing. so pretty soon we’re trying to be not just ourselves but four or five or six people.
GOD has given us enough time to be the person HE’s made us to be and when i envy others and try to be others, inevitably it’s going to put too much weight and too much stress on my life.
if i want to reduce stress, i’ve got to patch that hole in my heart, the hole of envy.
just a thought from the front porch…
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