At Yahoo poker the other day, I practically could do no wrong. I hit a full house on the flop. Then I won a couple of pots by hitting flushes on the river.
"Hot seat," a woman at the table wrote.
"I know," I replied with a giggle.
In only a few minutes, my pretend cash count jumped $200. Apparently that was too good for the table's host, who booted me without any real reason. (All I said after that was about how I folded back-to-back flushes at Lil Kim's Cove the night before.)
Sometimes people get jealous of other people's success. They even want to take vengeance. But that's not really what a Christian should do.
"Rejoice with those who rejoice," Paul wrote in Romans 12:15. "Mourn with those who mourn."
Be happy if you win -- but be controlled. But here's the tough part: being happy when someone else wins. In poker, that's the difference between the "only a game" and the "win or else" philosophies. We hope your choice is the right one.
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