Have you ever wanted someone else’s life? When I was between the ages of 8 and 10, I would spend hours jumping on the trampoline and dreaming about what I wanted to do when I grew up. I dreamed of being a quarterback in the NFL for my favorite team the Denver Broncos. Those dreams didn’t end up coming true but I look back fondly on those dreams as aspirations of someone who didn’t know any better.
That’s not what it means to be jealous of someone else’s life, to be jealous of someone is to look at that person and say why couldn’t I have what that person has, why am I not more successful or smarter or better talking to people. We all do it to some extent.
If you’re younger you might wish you were better at a sport you play or did better in school, in my life I’ve often looked at both of my sisters and wondered why I’m not smarter or why I don’t have a more influential job or situation, one of them is a political lawyer in DC, and the other is going to Med School and her ultimate goal is to fight world viruses.
But when we wish we were someone else or had somebody’s else’s success or skills, we actually insult God. Because when we do that we are telling God that he hasn’t put us in the right situation, that he didn’t create us in the right way. We’re telling him that we know what we need more than he does.
This week our prayers will focus on being thankful for what God has given us and asking him to help us find satisfaction and joy right where we has placed us.
Read: Genesis 37:12-28
Discussion Questions:
· Why were Joseph’s brother’s jealous of him?
· What should they have done if they felt jealous?
· Who is someone you might be jealous of?
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