Jealousy: The Green Eyed Monster

When you hear that someone else you know is doing something without you, and with someone else, do you ever want to scream, "It's not fair!"? When you feel like that, it is a warning to yourself that you are sinning in jealousy.

I am writing this post because I am being attacked by the Green Eyed Monster. I am feeling jealous because there are two girls doing something that makes me wish I had someone to do the same thing with.

I decided to look at some verses to see what God tells us about jealousy.

Psalm 78:58
They angered him with their high places; they aroused His jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 79:5
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 78:58 and Psalm 79:5 talk about how God is angered by our idolatry of others and things. His jealousy is aroused when we make other things or people more important to us than Him. Since He is a jealous God, He burns with anger for our total attention. He is jealous for us. We can understand this better, when we struggle with our own jealousy. But this does not give us permission to be jealous.

Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently........and not in jealousy.

Romans 13:13 talks about how we should behave decently. It goes one to describe jealousy as an indecent act. While the Lord has the right to be jealous for us, we are not to behave with jealousy in our hearts.

After reading these verses, I prayed and asked God to help me to get rid of my jealously! If you ever are feeling jealous, think of these verses.