What I think stands out clearly to me in this passage is what happen to people when they lose their focus.
When people get their eyes off of God and they look at their circumstances and they begin to judge their circumstances by how they feel about the situation.
Are they being treated fairly?
Are they happy?
Is someone else being rewarded more than me?
Is everything fair and am I being treated fairly according to my own definition?
What about me, I deserve, who does this person think they are getting more than me?
Everything is not fair and I don't like it, because I deserve the recognition of my work, my strength, my rights, my status, my gender, my pride, my skin color, my own self-esteem.
That is exactly what we see happening in our society today. An entire nation, indeed a world suffering from a lack of humility and a self-esteem problem that refuses to esteem others as more important than ourselves.
We live in a culture that has been indoctrinated and is being driven along by the socialistic idea that anyone who has something I don't is the enemy, and the enemy must be punished, silenced and placed under our foot.
Because everyone must have their fair share, without having to worry about working for what they earn.
So why has this happened?
There are three main reasons, and The Disciples demonstrate the problem of the Spiritual dangers of Complacency, Contention, and Contempt.