“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Proverbs 14:30

This proverb should be examined deeply. Envy rots the bones. 

Envy is big no-no commandment-wise. Envy can poison us – an evil egging us on in humanness. Envy from anything we want but don’t get.  Envy happens for stuff we get yet not appreciate enough as sufficient, always wanting more. Envy keeping us from realizing complete life is not here on earth anyway. A want over a need, a get over a gift, a desire over a satisfaction. 

Sometimes we then realize our eyes were bigger than our stomachs in life, and now that we can’t use the excess, it rots. Better a little and appreciate it, than too much and resent it. This goes for demanding attention, forcing an issue, and even purchasing too much easily spoiled food at the market. Rots…

A heart at peace, however, brings LIFE. Love is perfect, love does not envy because all needs are met in God, most importantly to be with Him. Life is forever, no envy, no boast except in Him. Live with Him within. 

Love brings realization that we can live without, because we live with Him within.

Peace comes from love, and us living in peace, in the Lord’s peace, brings the life we would dream of, not the envy, because when you realize you have the love of God, the forgiveness through Jesus, you are in peace, nothing left will even come close. 

Nothing but Love. 

Peace of the soul.

Amen

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“There was Jesus” sung by Zach Williams and Dolly Parton 

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LYRICS:

Every time I tried to make it on my own

Every time I tried to stand and start to fall

And all those lonely roads that I have travelled on

There was Jesus

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When the life I built came crashing to the ground

When the friends I had were nowhere to be found

I couldn’t see it then but I can see it now

There was Jesus

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In the waiting, in the searching

In the healing and the hurting

Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces

Every minute, every moment

Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Even when I didn’t know it or couldn’t see it

There was Jesus

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For this man who needs amazing kind of grace (Mmm)

For forgiveness at a price I couldn’t pay (Mmm)

I’m not perfect so I thank God every day

There was Jesus (There was Jesus)

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In the waiting, in the searching

In the healing and the hurting

Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces

Every minute, every moment

Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Even when I didn’t know it or couldn’t see it

There was Jesus

.

On the mountain, in the valleys (There was Jesus)

In the shadows of the alleys (There was Jesus)

In the fire, in the flood (There was Jesus)

Always is and always was

No I never walk alone (Never walk alone)

You are always there

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In the waiting, in the searching

In the healing and the hurting

Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces

Every minute (Every minute), every moment (Every moment)

Where I’ve been and where I’m going

Even when I didn’t know it or couldn’t see it

There was Jesus

.

There was Jesus

There was Jesus

There was Jesus

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1 Corinthians 13:4-12

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.