Apr 16, 2013
1 Samuel 22:6-23. Are you an envious person? As one early church father noted, "As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a person." (John Chrysostom) Here, we find that Saul became far more than just "green with envy"--in fact, he became red with it! Envy led Saul to become self-absorbed; to put the worst construction on things doubtful about other people; and left him under the delusion that his cause must be God's cause. No wonder that the Bible instructs us to get rid of all malice and jealous envy.