Check Your Pulse. James 3:13-16 NLT

James 3:13-16 NLT

True Wisdom Comes from God

13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. 15 For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. 16 For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.

God sees the heart. If we are happy for others blessing to their face and jealous in our heart, God sees it. When we let jealousy into our heart, we allow Satan to get a foothold and that jealousy takes root and grows into bitterness.
Bitterness's roots encircle the heart and strangle the life out of it. This strangling turns the heart hard. 

Next time you hear of another's blessing, check your pulse. Is your heartbeat slowing due to bitterness roots growing or speeding up with true joy for their blessing? Ask God for wisdom and understanding so you can live an honorable and humble life pleasing to Him. 

Blessings, Cecilia