All the sins affect to us negatively: same and to those who surround to us. But lately, giving him returned to the subject and seeing the great root of some evils of my society and the humanity I realize of which ENVY is really POISONOUS the MAS SIN that plagues the humanity. It is a toxic, authentic ponzoña that contaminates the person feels who it, that soon infects to its surroundings and returns absolutely unfortunate families and societies.
Behind envy usually they come the robbery, the greed, the immorality, the depression, even the homicide. It is as the ignited wick of very many great sins but. For that reason it would want to today dedicate to me to reflect on envy. I myself to be alert and the brothers and all.
In order to begin we must understand that since in the life of the Christian as in the one of the Jew, both great orders but are (in this order) those that the rabbi mentioned Jesus:
1 - God is ONE and you will love God on all the things
2 - You will love your fellow like same.
One is repeated in each synagog every week and is the SHEM� or declaration of faith of Israel that all the worshippers of the God de Abraham we repeated and revindicamos obvious as Jesus taught to us like the great mandate but. Of the second the own rabbi Jesus says to us that “it is the law and the prophets� or that it is so great that would be a summary of All the TOR�H and ALL THE LESSONS of the prophets of Israel: to love the fellow like same a one.
We think then about a summary of all the sins against the second order and we will realize that, exactly in opposition to loving the fellow like same a one, is ENVY.
If I love fellow as same I AM GLAD before the success of my fellow. If a new house were bought, I AM GLAD and not bitter me because I have a old man. If a new car were bought I CELEBRATE BY because it master and I do not put myself sad because I have a bicycle.
We must understand that the SUCCESS of our neighbor DOES NOT AFFECT to US NEGATIVELY, on the contrary, the prosperity and the happiness of our fellow generally imply benefits even for they surround which it, If a prosperous neighbor spends but, and if he spends but he does in his district, generates but use, and wealth between which sees their prosperity. If my fellow acquires a new one or, possibly it requires services and work to maintain, to repair or to improve that or within my own district, it requires and them of my or people who perhaps finish as well requiring something of my. Still if nothing of this occurred, simply the one that a person is prosperous and nonmiserable it is an improvement Rep. We think a second. we prefer to see our neighbors in the poverty, or the prosperity? By all means that some will think about justice and will think that the ideal is to see ALL our fellows in the wealth. God also thinks about that, but we spoke here of another thing: we speak to compare of personal situations, within the framework of any other social situation: your brother. you prefer to see your happy or sad fellow? He is not better to see a person smiling in the street? He is not better to go out and to see a happy person for the reason who is (that she does not imply the evil) that not to see none? Which is the logic to think that the other people's evil favors to us, that is preferable the pain our fellow if we cannot accede to their same goods?
This is a poison. Within the people who Jesus I call “hungry of thirst and justice�, that is to say of which they dream just about a world but, we even can distinguish to the truly sincere ones and simple the envious ones. A person HUNGRY AND THIRSTY OF JUSTICE generally does not have envy, but mercy, solidarity. She watches downwards and generally she undergoes by the situation del that has him LESS and not by the situation del that has MAS THAT. Taken care of with the great discursantes that disguise in justice speeches something that are only a envy speech on much which it has the one has much and that I deserve me in fact and not. dircurso social sincere concentrates in the deficiency del that it does not have, in the pain the destitute and not in the abundance del that it has. Then satiated being is not an evil in itself. A person cannot be hated reason why she has. That hatred, that envy is not Christian; it violates the second order and it is not part of the right world but that we hoped where “justice will have to dwell�.
Brothers we must remember that we have what we have in the life, always, will always be somebody you have but and always there will be somebody has less. We can dedicate to us to hate to which it has but and to thus fill of that poison giving the example to us so that the one that has us less also hates to us to have but that he. or we can dedicate to us TO LOVE which has less, closing the poison flow and putting a double example: to that it has less to than downwards follows that chain and to which it has but to that averguenze and thinks if it has done not yet it, about us.
For that reason the laws of God are perfect: because they work in the real life. If the human being will eradicate only envy among all evils the world it would be absolutely different. Still being another evils, if only quitaramos envy brother. that different it would be the world.
People today envy and fear to envy. The one that counts a good one notifies the account with mieda, with verguenza. If somebody obtained a dream, by modest that is when counting soon feels it the necessity to diminish it, and to relativize it before the possible envy.
- To the aim I obtained that terrenito that always I dreamed…
- In serious?
- Good… if…. but it is in quotas…
- If but tenes a land. that suertudo that sos!
- Good. if. but it is not so good, has much weeds…
- If, but I had that land. fahh. that luck that tenes…
- Good. in fact he is very small…
Something that had to be a reason for glad conversation between somebody happy one to obtain something and somebody happy one that to his it obtains it fellow, became to char it negative.
Brothers: we declare a WAR TO ENVY. We remember once again: the GOOD OF MY FELLOW DOES NOT DAMAGE to ME. Ejercitémonos in cheering us for the good of the fellow, to pray by its well-being and prosperity.
Some things that we can really do AGAINST ENVY (and it triviality not to hang a tape of some color in the car):
- To congratulate to our well-known, neighboring and friendly ones when they obtain something that is important for them. It is a title, an ascent, to buy something new, to marry, WHICH IS. We take the initiative: we make questions, we show healthy interest. We say: “Neighboring. I was seeing. that pretty that this that motorcycle that finishes buying. It does not know whichever I am glad, I congratulate really it! You deserve it for being a man so dedicated to his work�. That is an antidote against envy: to cheer to us, to move our head in that direction.
- When we are those that we obtained something, include whichever people we pruned in our success doing to them to see that they also comprise of our joy. To make a meeting with our friendly, to tell what we have managed and to say something to them like “Thanks to all, would not have obtained this WITHOUT friendly YOU, thanks really�. As far as possible to be generous and to share any thing that the Gentleman has to us clearly provided of reasonable way.
- To avoid the comparisons and the speculations. The life of our fellow never is we imagined as it. But the poison of envy causes that the other people's life seems always better to us than ours: it seems we that the fellow wins but, spend but, has but, etc. and often we are those that we have but, simply that we do not know all the panorama. We do not judge the people reason why they do not have, but reason why they do not have either. Especially reason why WE THINK that they have. A person for example can be very poor, but in certain exceptional celebration (the graduation of its unique daughter) to make a cost extraordinary because she focused all their effort in that. Perhaps somebody has a luxurious car due to labor circumstances (for example some employees of real estate). We did not gain anything speculating on whichever desire the neighbor and envying. On the contrary: if we wished the best thing him, and we cheered than the fellow it has we will live but happy.
A time ago a study became in which it was asked to him a group of people who prefair. If to gain 20,000 dollars to the month in a country where everybody gained 5,000 or if they preferian to gain 30,000 in a country where all gained 50.000. Unusually many people preferian to gain less, but than others. Even knowing that to win but, even being the one that gained implicaria less them but spending power, good but access.
Envy is irrational. It was the origin of the sin perhaps since it were Satan as his messenger of God that envied the position of YHWH in the Universe and thought that it also deserved it. The human being also envied the right of our God to determine what is or or badly for us. The principle of the wars usually is “or is mine or of ANYBODY� and the armies prefer to see a devastated and carbonized territory that into the hands of its enemies. He is cruel, irrational. We must eradicate the envy of our lives. HEALTHY ENVY does not exist as well as a HEALTHY POISON does not exist.
When simply sientamos ENVY brother we fight against her. Pongámonos standing up, we do something actively against. We pray, centrémonos in which we have. We ask but for others that stop we. They remember that in the Universe still the own Jesus has to whom is over and has but which HE: to its Father of whom said “why you call to me good? Good there is one only: the Father�.
Only the Father this in a position in which he has EVERYTHING, and from that position our immense God does not make but be glad of our profits and happiness. We are like him brother with whom they have less and with those than they have but.
Shalom
