When the Green-Eyed Monster Has You Down

[00:00:01] It's easy to look at the lives of others and feel a little envious.

[00:00:06] There's another way to look at things, however.

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[00:00:57] you know I generally read a short scripture and pair it with a video

[00:01:01] and corresponding sound effects.

[00:01:04] However, there are a number of passages that are longer

[00:01:07] and won't fit in one of those little packages.

[00:01:10] I want to read one of them for this episode

[00:01:13] because I don't think I'm alone in looking at others

[00:01:17] and thinking how awesome their lives are

[00:01:19] or looking at stuff they have

[00:01:21] or a success as they've achieved

[00:01:23] and being a little envious.

[00:01:27] Earlier this week I talked about David

[00:01:29] and his ups and downs in Psalms.

[00:01:32] His music director, Aceaf,

[00:01:34] also wrote a few of the Psalms,

[00:01:36] including the one I'd like to focus on today.

[00:01:40] Psalms 73.

[00:01:42] Truly God is good to Israel.

[00:01:46] To those who are pure and heart.

[00:01:48] But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled.

[00:01:52] My steps had nearly slipped.

[00:01:55] For I was envious of the arrogant

[00:01:57] when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

[00:02:00] For they have no pangs until death,

[00:02:03] their bodies are fat and sleek.

[00:02:05] They're not in trouble as others are.

[00:02:08] They're not stricken like the rest of mankind.

[00:02:11] Therefore pride is their necklace.

[00:02:15] Violence covers them as a garment.

[00:02:17] They're eyes swell out through fatness.

[00:02:20] Their hearts overflow with follies.

[00:02:23] They scoff and speak with malice

[00:02:26] loftily they threaten oppression.

[00:02:28] They sit their mouths against the heavens

[00:02:31] and their tongue struts through the earth.

[00:02:34] Therefore, his people turned back to them

[00:02:37] and find no fault in them

[00:02:39] and they say, how can God know?

[00:02:42] Is there knowledge in the most high?

[00:02:45] Behold, these are the wicked.

[00:02:48] Always at ease, they increase enriches.

[00:02:52] All in vain have I kept my heart clean

[00:02:56] and washed my hands in innocence.

[00:02:58] For all the day long I have been stricken

[00:03:01] and rebuked every morning.

[00:03:03] If I had said, I will speak thus.

[00:03:06] I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

[00:03:11] But when I thought how to understand this,

[00:03:14] it seemed to me a worrisome task

[00:03:17] until I went into the sanctuary of God.

[00:03:20] Then I discerned their end.

[00:03:24] Truly, you set them in slippery places

[00:03:27] you make them fall to ruin

[00:03:29] how they are destroyed in a moment

[00:03:32] swept away utterly by terrors.

[00:03:35] Like a dream when one wakes,

[00:03:38] oh Lord, when you rouse yourself,

[00:03:40] you despise them as phantoms.

[00:03:42] When my soul was imbittered.

[00:03:45] When I was pricked in heart,

[00:03:47] I was brutish and ignorant.

[00:03:49] I was like a beast toward you.

[00:03:52] Nevertheless, I am continually with you.

[00:03:56] You hold my right hand.

[00:03:58] You guide me with your counsel.

[00:04:01] And afterward, you will receive me to glory.

[00:04:06] Who have I in heaven but you?

[00:04:08] And there is nothing on earth

[00:04:10] that I desire beside you.

[00:04:13] My flesh and my heart may fail,

[00:04:16] but God is the strength of my heart

[00:04:18] and my portion forever.

[00:04:21] For behold, those who are far from you shall perish.

[00:04:25] You put an end to everyone

[00:04:28] who is unfaithful to you.

[00:04:30] But for me, it is good to be near God.

[00:04:34] I have made the Lord my refuge

[00:04:36] that I may tell of all your works.

[00:04:40] Our meme for today says,

[00:04:43] The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence,

[00:04:47] but powered by drainage from the septic tank.

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