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Yes, You Can Be Happy For Others!

by: CBN

It's a familiar scenario: Your best friend from college has just announced her engagement, your co-worker just got a promotion, and your next-door neighbor just bought a new, fully loaded SUV.
Is your first reaction a pang of jealousy? Is it that self-pitying, why-not-me response? How about this one: It's not fair that someone I know just got what I wanted.
Now, obviously, these are not the appropriate Christian responses to the success of someone you know. The correct response is to sincerely congratulate that blessed individual. But there are times that we just don't want to be happy for others. In fact, we may even feel justified in withholding our blessing because we think we haven't been blessed enough.
To be happy for another is not just a choice, it's a good choice. And more than that, it's a God choice, for the Bible commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves. The Bible mentions this principle often (see Leviticus 19:18, Romans 13:9, and James 2:8). As it says in Galatians 5:14, the whole law can be summed up by this one command. That's powerful stuff!
Blessing others is such a simple principle, you would think it would be easy to implement. However, there are times when being truly happy for another is challenging. That is because we are required to die to ourselves. Death to our own nature is painful, but having God resurrect in us His character and His ways is true life indeed! Expect when you decide to bless others that it may not feel natural at first. You might want to take back your blessing when, after praying for others, they actually succeed in their endeavors. Jealousy may try to take a foothold. But don't give up. Repent of any ill feelings, and then continue to bless and allow God to work on your bad attitude. He will change it as you obey Him.

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