Love Does Not Envy...

Love does not envy. Envy, the green-eyed monster. Envy and jealousy are both similar. Envy means to feel resentful or painful desire for another's advantages, successes, or possessions. Envy is covetousness and leads to discontent and insecurity. Envy looks and focuses on the other person and desires what that person is or what he or she has. Envy eats away at you, consumes you, and is very destructive. Love does not envy because it is not about oneself, but about the wellbeing of others. Rather than being insecure, love desires the blessings and successes of others. Pure love has eyes that see what another has acheived or possesses and rejoices for that person. Let us allow God's love to fill us so much that we do not view ourselves as deprived or lacking, but instead are delighted in the blessings of others. Our lives do not consist in the things we possess but in the fact that we are loved completely and unconditionally. Love does not envy.