Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

Envy is self-focused; because it's self-focused, it's entitled; because it's entitled, it's demanding; because it's demanding, it tends to judge the goodness of God by whether he has delivered what you feel entitled to; and because it judges God on that basis, it leads you to question his goodness. Because you question God's goodness, you won't run to him for help. Envy is a spiritual disaster.

The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.

Envy is universal because sin is.

You're not aware of it, but your envy of others and the pain it produces lock you into a view of life that has a disastrous past and a painful present but is functionally without a future. It feels as if what is will always be.

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.