Jealousy

Look around you, what do you see?A society in chaos ethnic tribal and religious vengeance with savagery that appals you and watered down moral values that revolts you. A harvest of parental neglect and illegal drugs and streets full of violence. How did it all began? It all began when a powerful spirit creature got jealous of of his creator because of the worship he was getting. Something he was not entitled to but wanted for himself. Fast forward a bit A king got jealous of one of his military commanders

because he thought the young man was being being praised for something but he felt only he must be praised like that. Again fast forward to our day: 6000 000 jews lost their lives because a man got jealous of their prosperity and 24 000 000 soviet citizens lost their lives because a man again got jealous of their oil resources. Yes jealousy is a costly vice.

No wonder God finds it a hateful device and decreed that jealous persons cannot enter into the kingdom of the heavens. In his word he calls jealousy rottenness to the bones. In other words Jehovah defines jealousy as bone cancer.

Even the the apostle Paul found it necessary to speak out strongly against jealousy when he realized that jealousy was becoming a destructive element in the Christian congregation

But is it all bad? Not necessarily jealousy is like fire it can be used to cook a meal but when out of control will burn the house down

This kind of jealousy is refreshing it is called godly jealousy. The apostle Paul himself was fired by this jealousy It is the kind of jealousy that galvanizes us to protect our reputation and our health and that of our our families but more importantly it causes us to tolerate no rivalry when it comes to our God Jehovah. It is the quality that makes us speak up when his name is being sullied.