Jealousy: Cancer Of The Heart
"Jealousy is a real problem that everyone must face and everyone must fight at some time or another. Jealously and envy are very close and almost synonymous, but there's a slight difference. Jealousy is when you have all that you ought to have, but you still want what someone else has. Envy is when you want something someone else has that you don't have. They may not be twin brothers, but they are definitely kissing cousins.
"It's so easy to be jealous in an instant. Just think about how following situations can make a person jealous:
• Your classmate makes the football team, but you don't.
• Your colleague gets the promotion at work, but you don't.
• Your neighbor buys a bigger home, but you can't.
• Your friend drives a nice car that you can't afford.
• You meet a more beautiful thinner woman, or a more handsome charming man.
• It can even happen to a pastor who hears a better preacher, or visits a bigger church.
"In fact, I want to be honest. One of the greatest problems we pastors face is the problem of jealousy. We are so enamored with size we think that a person who has bigger church must have a better church, though it's really not true-bigger is not necessarily better, and the grass is not always greener."
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Keywords: church health, problems, health, cancer, envy, jealousy
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