Psalm 73:21-23

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

The antitoxin for envy and self-pity is humility. The psalmist first saw that his sin hurt him and then that it hurt others, but finally he sees he has been as arrogant toward God as the people he despised. There is in us a fierce, instinctive self-will as unthinking and inhuman as that of a wild beast. Augustine remembered stealing pears only because it was forbidden. Deep in us something snarls, "No one tells me what to do." Only by admitting this darkness within can the glorious word of grace - "yet" dawn on him (v.23). God never let him go. Only when we see the depth of our sin will we be electrified by the wonder of grace.

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