My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) The Bible says, “Thou shalt not covet.” You can usually tell if you’re doing it because it bites into your gut. Someone else is doing better, or has something better, than you, and the teeth of covetousness sink in. It happens to Christians. I’ve heard pastors talk about feeling extremely jealous of other ministries with more people, more followers, bigger buildings and budgets. Have you ever heard a pastor say, “Here’s my hot wife”? Okaaaaay. Weird. But what happens when the next pastor walks in with an even hotter wife? It’s the comparison trap, and it’s poison. Like young George Bailey said in It’s a Wonderful Life, “It’s poison, I tell ya. It’s poison!” There’s a powerful story of comparison in the Bible between Peter and John. There must have been some kind of rivalry between Peter and John because it shows up a few times. In John chapter 21, Jesus appears to