Envy is the craving to posses what another owns in order to fill our desperate emptiness. When we envy what someone has or is, we are trying to fill a hole in our heart that God should be filling. We want their contract, prestige, thin thighs, beautiful hair, or new Mercedes. And it is usually not enough to have something similar or slightly less than what they own, it has to be be something bigger, better, or more expensive. When a person looks deeper into the dark hole of envy in their lives, it is far worse than just the desire to better themselves. The deepest envy turns the person into an enemy and gets worse to the point that not only do we want something better or have more, we want to glow in their humiliation. The person becomes a rival with what we want and drives us to compete to eliminate them over what we want.
Envy is an act of sinful unbelief that God is far better than any person or possession. We eliminate envy by desiring more of God and enjoy Him more. We eliminate envy by loving the person rather than what they have. We can beat the temptation of envy by delighting and rejoicing with that person and showing them the affection of God. And ultimately we can defeat envy by delighting and being satisfied in God and what gifts and blessings He has given us.
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