A Prayer to Avoid Envy | Your Daily Prayer

“Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the Lord. You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed.” – Proverbs 23:17-18, NLT

Sidelined again. After years of strengthening my body and treating old injuries, I had finally been able to enjoy the thing on this earth I love the most …running. Through the local park in the early morning hours, I found myself smiling, rejoicing, and getting fast again. The subtle pain in my left knee drifted from nagging to throwing my stride into a tizzy in a matter of days, and I found myself weeping over what I feared I had lost again. I envied people who could do what I could not, and it aggravated me that people with completely healthy legs didn’t use them to run – it didn’t seem fair, and I quickly started to feel sorry for myself.