uIn a penetrating article, TIME magazine talked at length about,  "...the uselessness of envy. As with many behaviors that were once considered vices—greed, sloth, lust—envy reflects a miscalculation in the relative worth of things." 

Take our culture’s obsession with celebrities. TIME noted, “Sometimes, we can barely get through the day. They [celebrities] are happier and more fulfilled… Their lives look better than ours, and therefore they must be better people than we are, [but]… Many lives are not as they appear.” As examples, TIME talked about two celebrities who had recently ended it all and lamented that such people’s lives, "...aren’t as amazingly blissful as they appear."

It’s not just beauty that’s skin deep. It’s also fame and riches. Glamour and glitz, and power and popularity, aren’t enough. They’ve never been enough. They’re this world’s terrible miscalculations of worth.

Jesus spoke profound truth in John 10:10 where He says: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Whatever the devil offers, the devil laughs and takes away. Only Jesus offers life to the full here and now—and for all eternity. Share this with your friends.   

This is Luis Palau.