What is the antedote to ego and envy ... what does it look like? James 1-3

James 3:16-18
" For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."

If you want to know why you have issues at home, work, church or in the community, James has given us both the source and the solution in the above passage.   The sources is found in the depraved nature of man.    James tells us that "where" jealousy and selfish ambition (Envy and Ego) exists, there will be disorder.   He doesn't say "if" envy and ego exists.  He doesn't write, "should you come across ego and envy," this is what you do.   No, he simply acknowledge the deep depravity of man and than gives us a solution.   Man, left to his own devices wants what he can't have or shouldn't have (jealousy ... envy) and thinks more highly of himself than he ought to think (selfish-ambitions .... ego).  The solution for the world to these two villains varies, depending on the writer, philosopher, psychologist, sociologists, juries or judge.   God's word is plan for the solution and is stated by James.  James would have been familiar with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and, Epicures.    The Socratic philosophy of the day would NOT to recognize the need to repent of your ego or envy.   Instead it would pursue it and seek to understand it.   Freud would later elevate the ego to make it a positive necessity for the natural man.     However, James sees the self-ambitious man lacking the one thing he needs to govern the ego and to quench the thirst of envy:  Wisdom.     (Remember, in 1 Corinthians 1-2, Wisdom is Christ ... Christ is Wisdom).    In chapter one of James we are told to seek wisdom in humility.  James picks up where he left off in chapter one and assumes that the person who has humbled themselves and, by faith, fears the Lord (Proverbs 9:10), will be seeking wisdom.   That seeking of wisdom is the antithesis of seeking ego and envy because the seeking of wisdom is the acknowledgement that God is King and is the one only who can care for the depravity in our hearts.   Wisdom is the antidote for ego and envy and will replace disorder with pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable, merciful, good, unwavering and non-hypocritical fruit ... the opposite of disorder and every evil thing.    Seeking wisdom rather than seeking self is the solution to disorder ... ego and envy.    Seeking understanding and the fear of the Lord is the answer to seeking your own ambitions and being jealous of what others have.   It is only in Christ that you can have this perfect harmony of fruit in your life.  You will know if what you want to do is from wisdom if it produces harmony and gentleness.  If it produces disorder or pain and evil that it is out of an ego and/or envy.    The fruit of the decision will evidence the core of the act.   Seek God's Wisdom and you won't be pursuing ego and envy.