Envy, just green with it. That is how we find ourselves so often. It will sometimes drive us to spread gossip about others, a bit of sabotage for the competition. Oh, the tainted and spoiled spirit that can manifest from our comparison to others. And oddly enough it goes on in every single strata of society, from the least to the mighty, from the toddler to the old miser. Rock stars not happy with a recording selling three million when another sells ten. Have you ever gone into prayer with a supplication for more, born of a mere desire to compete? What debts have we accumulated simply because we must keep up with the Jones?
Pride and envy can produce a wagging tongue that is as green as the bacteria that inhabit a stagnant swamp. And if it is rolling off our tongue imagine just how much must be on the mind, and how deep the furrows in the cortex that these impulses travel.
Proverbs 26:22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.
26:20 Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.
What’s in your worship?
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