A Prayer When You Are Tempted with Jealousy – Your Daily Prayer

A Prayer When You Are Tempted with Jealousy
By Emily Rose Massey

“Now godliness with contentment is excellent attain. For we introduced very little into this earth, ^[d]and it is specific we can carry nothing out. And obtaining food and clothes, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:6-8, ESV). 

Has interaction on social media at any time created a heaviness in your coronary heart, maybe main you to review your self to many others? In my existence, I seem to be to get this cloud that sorts around me when I scroll via specified social media influencers’ profiles. You know, the types from someplace in the Midwest with a thriving business, attractive youngsters, Magnolia-impressed farmhouse decor masking the pristine images of their cute house…and the lighting! Excellent lighting in these images…just about every single just one of them! Definitely stunning pure gentle in these posts! And I want to imitate it, not mainly because I am impressed, but for the reason that quite frankly, I am jealous of these strangers on the world-wide-web! The cloud that looms more than my head is this heaviness that I will need to make my lifestyle search like this. I get started to consider I need what they have, and a sensation of “not enough” starts to creep up in my coronary heart.

A short while ago, the Lord has been exhibiting me as a result of this restlessness how discontented I have grow to be as a result of social media, and that is some thing I am operating through with the Holy Spirit on how I can guard my heart from these sorts of entanglements that bring distraction and discontentment. My eyes have drifted upon lesser things, and it has influenced my heart in a great way. Comparison that leads to envy and jealousy has been a trap of the enemy since development. The motive guiding Adam and Eve’s disobedience was comparison, which led to covetousness, which led to satisfaction, which led to selfishness, which led to ungratefulness for what God had now delivered (all rooted in panic).

Are you in concern? Then you are not in faith, believing God at His Word and completely trusting Him that He has supplied you accurately what you will need. Just about anything that is not of religion is sin (Romans 14:23). When we assess ourselves with a different, we are saying we would do a improved task setting up out our lives than our Creator, the sovereign Most Superior, performing like Satan who fell and brought on Adam and Eve to drop. Whoa, that is a risky place to be!

When we are wrestling with these coronary heart concerns and sin, we normally want a point of view shift, and this will not arrive from social media, but the Term of God is what will bring clarity when our minds and hearts come to be clouded with worldliness that results in us to come to be jealous of many others. 

The Apostle Paul reminds his non secular son Timothy in his first letter to him to keep his intellect on eternal and spiritual matters:

“Now godliness with contentment is good acquire. For we introduced nothing into this entire world, and it is specific we can have very little out. And acquiring food items and outfits, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:6-8, ESV).

Our Heavenly Father makes sure that birds are fed definitely, He will choose treatment of us! If we have foods and clothes, we certainly really do not want nearly anything else All else is ease and comfort and items from our Father. Any materials blessing past food items and clothes that the Lord graces us with ought to induce us to worship and rejoice in thankfulness for His abundant mercy and really like in the direction of us as His children. 

We are all responsible of evaluating our life to someone else’s lifetime at a person position or another and permitting it to cause some type of jealousy. The only way out is to repent and renew your brain with the Term of God. As an alternative of fixating on others’ life, we will have to continue to keep our eyes on Jesus and His Phrase. If you cling to Him and abide in Him, you will keep on being comprehensive of His enjoy, pleasure, and peace- the only matters that will bring correct success and contentment. You won’t want nearly anything else than what He has given you His fantastic, eternal guarantees and tender, Fatherly treatment for you will be additional than sufficient. Let’s raise our gaze and thank Him for what He has presently so richly delivered for us in Christ Jesus. 

Let’s pray:

Heavenly Father,
Thank You for delivering all the things that I will need (not want). You have delivered foodstuff and garments, and in this, I require to be content material. Contentment with godliness is great get in Your eyes. I require Your enable to uncover rest in contentment I need to have Your enable to keep on being grateful when my eyes wander on to others’ life resulting in me to turn out to be jealous. I believe in that Your approach for my lifetime is very best, which contains all earthly possessions that I am given. I deal with my eyes upon You and Your Term today. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit that convicts my coronary heart when I turn out to be jealous or envious of other people. Enable me to prioritize my time and produce boundaries, in particular pertaining to my social media usage. I want to glorify You in my ideas and steps. In Jesus’ title, amen. 

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