Envy

(Morning Service)

Text: Psalm 37:1-9

Envy can have a destructive impact on our lives. It hinders love, interferes with prayer, dismantles satisfaction, ruins peace, steals joy, warps relationships, and blinds you from seeing the goodness of God in your life. The Bible shows us plainly, envy is not what God wants for us and we need combat our envy. But how? Through David’s writing in Psalm 37 we’ll find some answers. We’ll see that engaging envy is all about seeing clearly.

---

“Of David.

Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.


Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.


Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.


Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!


Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
For the evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

(Psalm 37:1–9 ESV)”