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kids…her wealth…her luck…her blessings.” Turn your thoughts toward Jesus instead. Think about His beauty, His wealth, His talents, His nature, His provision, His help, and His power. Thank Him for the rich inheritance you have in Him, and tell Him you can’t wait to experience it all. Covetousness started when Cain wanted what Abel had, and he killed him for it. But he suffered the rest of his life as a result. “Where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1 Corinthians 3:3). We don’t want to suffer for the rest of our lives because of covetousness. The price we pay for envy is way too high. “A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones” (Proverbs 14:30). Ask for God’s love to be manifested in you and through you at all times. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy” (1 Corinthians 13:4). 5. Refuse to be depressed. Of all the negative emotions, I believe depression is the one we most readily accept as part of our lives. So many of us live with depression and accept it without even realizing it. It feels natural to us because it is so familiar. But God doesn’t want us to accept this as a way of life. Many people of the Bible understood what depression feels like. “I am weary with my groaning; all night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies” (Psalm 6:6-7). “Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none” (Psalm 69:20). “My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to Your word” (Psalm 119:28). Does any of this sound familiar? The good news is that God doesn’t want us to live with these feelings. He wants us to have the