Hook: When was the last time you felt misunderstood or mistreated by others?

Book: King Herod was probably disturbed because he feared competition. If he had read the seven-hundred-year-old prophecy of Micah, the king would have known that Jesus was a different kind of King—who simply wanted to shepherd His people. Herod was reading his own evil motives into an innocent Jesus. Jealousy consumes and distorts reality.

Took: What should you remember when tempted to think the worst by calling someone’s good “bad”?