The Bible Speaks to You September 14, 1963 Issue

[The above if substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the weekend of September 6—8 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You," heard internationally over more than 800 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 75 - No Reason for Envy

HOST: An article in Christianity and Crisis said: "Immense pressures build up today in the highly competitive atmosphere of school, college, corporation and neighborhood that tend to make Envy almost a natural coefficient of life. Today no matter how solid a man's success may be—or at least no matter how solid it may appear to his neighbor—in some relation in life he knows what it feels like to be ... on the short end of a blessing, galled by the very sight of the man who has the luck." [This quotation is from the article entitled "Envy" by William F. May which appeared in the January 7, 1963, issue of Christianity and Crisis.]

What's the answer to this familiar problem?

SPEAKER: I'd say that the answer to envy is learning what God has already given to us. Envy is a form of blindness, blindness to God's tender, loving care, blindness to what His boundless gifts mean for man. When we see what God really is and what the man of His creating really is, we see the good that already belongs to us. I'm not speaking of material things: of cars, of houses, boats, that sort of thing. I'm speaking of spiritual gifts, gifts from God, which really remove the sense of insecurity that underlies envy.

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