Psalm 42 & 43
Today I am getting help … my second granddaughter is helping me write this. At one point she and her older sister had a dental appointment. Like every good dentist the kids received toys and everyone was happy, well that is, at least until they got home. A problem developed because the older sister got a green car and the young one did not. Being the sisters that they are, the car was not shared. The little one helping me write this really wanted a car. She could look at her sisters car but could not play with it. The more she looked at the car the more she wanted one for herself. She thought and worked out schemes to take her sisters play car for herself. The jealous desire for the toy car caused relationship friction and fights all because one had what the other wanted. Jealousy and greed are the evil twins of the same problem. Greed wants what another has while jealousy is discontent that someone else has what you want. It is a problem that starts in our corrupted hearts when we are young and grows with us unless we get God’s help to deal with it. There was a man named Korah in the Bible who was a grumbling leader and fought for his own way (see Numbers 16). However, his descendants learned a valuable lesson about jealousy, greed and personal pride. God used them to write a number of worship Psalms including Psalm 42 & 43. Oh yes, you are wondering how the car situation was resolved. Well, it took a bit of time and another visit to the dentist where the one who was without a car was able to get her own blue car. Funny how God worked that out, just like the He did with the descendants of Korah.
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Today I am getting help … my second granddaughter is helping me write this. At one point she and her older sister had a dental appointment. Like every good dentist the kids received toys and everyone was happy, well that is, at least until they got home. A problem developed because the older sister got a green car and the young one did not. Being the sisters that they are, the car was not shared. The little one helping me write this really wanted a car. She could look at her sisters car but could not play with it. The more she looked at the car the more she wanted one for herself. She thought and worked out schemes to take her sisters play car for herself. The jealous desire for the toy car caused relationship friction and fights all because one had what the other wanted. Jealousy and greed are the evil twins of the same problem. Greed wants what another has while jealousy is discontent that someone else has what you want. It is a problem that starts in our corrupted hearts when we are young and grows with us unless we get God’s help to deal with it. There was a man named Korah in the Bible who was a grumbling leader and fought for his own way (see Numbers 16). However, his descendants learned a valuable lesson about jealousy, greed and personal pride. God used them to write a number of worship Psalms including Psalm 42 & 43. Oh yes, you are wondering how the car situation was resolved. Well, it took a bit of time and another visit to the dentist where the one who was without a car was able to get her own blue car. Funny how God worked that out, just like the He did with the descendants of Korah.
For more see PSALMS or DISCIPLESHIP
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