A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bonesI reflect upon several incident that happened these few days. Just some food for thoughts.
Have you often felt depressed because you were not good enough for something and others were? You know that you are envious and couldnt do much? You may sink into depression because you thought you were powerless? Issit it dangerous if you could actually do something, you might fight to get to the top? And at a greater extend you may deprive others and you do not care??
I couldnt really say what incident it was, bcos it will mean mentioning others name which I wouldnt want to.
But the whole point was that I reflected upon it. I realise that I forgot to mention the greatness of how when others receive the goodness, it was all the power of LORD who made it possible??
Isn't it better if I could congrat the person on his good news and share his happiness? I know I may not hae it, but if I think so much about getting it, being so overly obsessed, wouldnt I hurt myself in the process of craving? It's okay if I try to attain it with justified ways, but it is always important that I go back to the basic to reflect what I did was the 'right' thing to do.
The whole point is: sometimes when we are envious of people, we forgot the whole point that we need to love others, we may end up back-stabbing, turning hostile?
A fable to end it all:
There was an eagle who was envious of another that could fly better than he could. One day the bird saw a sportsman with a bow and arrow and said to him, "I wish you would bring down that eagle up there." The man said he would if he had some feathers for his arrow. So the jealous eagle pulled one out of his wing. The arrow was shot, but it didn't quite reach the rival bird because he was flying too high. The first eagle pulled out another feather, then another--until he had lost so many that he himself couldn't fly. The archer took advantage of the situation, turned around, and killed the helpless bird.
If you are envious of others, the one you will hurt most by your actions will be you.
