Have you ever noticed that sometimes, on the outside, you carry a calm smile-yet inside, there’s a pinch you can’t ingore? That quiet nudge that makes you wonder, “Why did I feel that?” Maybe you are not openly envious, but someting deep within whispers a silent discomfort when someone else is elevated, blessed, or praised.
The Word of God reminds us that ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17;9). Often, we wrestle with inner feelings we cannot easily display to the world. These feelings may not always look like envy, but they reveal the hidden work our hearts still need.
The psalmist once confessed, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceiyed me” (Psalm 51:5). Yet he also prayed, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a reight spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10). This is the beauty of reflection-recognizing that the pinch inside is not the end, but an invitation to transformation.