Pride and Jealousy Destroys

Self righteous pride guides a person into viewing things they way they WISH to see them instead of the way they are in reality.

Many relationships are destroyed by jealousy and self righteousness. Those who are like this will take a good thing and determine it as bad to avoid admitting someone or something has value.

Do not be dismayed when jealous people demean and mock everything you do. There is a sense of sadness for them, that they cannot be joyful within themselves without devaluing another human being.

Those who must devalue others in order to lift themselves up never rise from the mire of their own gloomy outlook. We see the lack of joy in those who act like this as well as a genuineness.

Those who are confident in Christ never feel a need to devalue anyone else to elevate self. Since self is not on the throne to begin with there is no need to bring others down to lift up.

We see in godly people who have been born again the attitude of compassion for the lost. Being bigger than someone else is anathema to those who love the way Christ loves. Our compassion looks beyond the flaws to the need for Christ and the potential in Christ once these people who are flawed just like us find healing.

Those who think they are better often have the misguided belief that they never needed to weep over their sinfulness. Not realizing no one can be born again unless they can confess their sinfulness, they continue heaping arrogance upon arrogance only to end up in the dung heap of narcissism.

When we see everyone as having value and in need of being treated with respect we never act in ways that make others feel unloved or worthless.

Ephesians 5:2 "1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God."

John 13:34-35 "34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”…"

John 15:11-13 "…11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.…"

If there is jealousy and competitiveness there is no love.

James 3:16
"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice."

Romans 5:5
"And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."