When the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭37‬:‭28‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Jealousy drives people to do crazy stuff to vanquish what they view as competition. 

Ironically, jealousy says a lot more about you than about the object of your jealousy.

To admire, then wish obsessively for something merely underscores your own nature of greed and discontent.

When it’s not reigned in, jealousy starts bitter wars all based on your conviction that you deserve something more or something better. 

Humility is its opposite. 

In fact, as sinners we deserve nothing but to be thankful for the generosity of God and for his salvation. 

But we’re competitive by nature. The very nature we are to have abandoned as followers of Christ. 

This week of Thanksgiving, let us not frustrate ourselves over who we aren’t or what we don’t have. 

Be thankful of WHOSE we are and for what we DO possess as a result.

Jealousy has no place in our lives and undermines thankfulness.