So 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 more about you than the object of your jealousy itself.

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

When not reigned in, jealousy starts bitter wars all based on the conviction 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 his salvation.

But we are 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 possess as a result.