In Matthew 2 is the story of the wise men. The first verses point out their trip to see Herod to find out where the Christ is. (BTW, a real cool version of this story is in the first chapters of Ben-Hur)

you can see Herod on the seat of his chair, “Say what? The King of who? umm…oh yeah, let me look into that for you. I need to worship him as well.” This is a guy who has a large ego, and a real tight grip on his Throne. He is jealousy of anyone who may jeopardize that.

It makes me think of me, being too comfortable of where I am at, or when someone is excelling in something that I am good at as well. All of the sudden, the competition spirit comes out to show them I am better. Competition is good, but for the sake of keeping hold of a title cause you “need” that to feel good…thats bad.

The right thing to do is to be happy with/for that person for their accomplishments! WOW! That was easy to say! Tough to do…definitely need the Holy Spirits help with that! (…after a while, you realize, what good thing do we NOT need the Holy Spirits help for?)