“Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with Isaac. So she said to Abraham, ‘Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.’” –Genesis 21:8-21. In the opening scene of Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, Baby Riley’s parents try to introduce her to broccoli. (And any parent who’s ever had a picky toddler knows where this is going.) Disgust–who claims “to keep Riley from being poisoned physically and socially”–causes Riley to point her nose up away from the smelly green substance. Then Anger–who “cares very deeply about things being fair”--causes Riley to throw the broccoli away in a tantrum when her dad threatens to take away dessert. Oh how true to life this scene is! Like all emotions, disgust and anger are things God created as integral to our humanity. This means that our emotions can be helpful tools that God has given us to connect with one another and worship God. But unfortunately, the reverse is also true: our emotions can be affected by sin and lead us astray. In Genesis 21, we see how Sarah’s emotions betray her. More specifically, we see how disgust and anger sometimes work together to create another powerful emotion: envy, one of the strongest threats to God’s promises that we’ve seen so far. [Read the rest on our Blog website at the link below]