JEALOUSY

Proverbs 13:14 says a heart at peace brings life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Job 5:2:  Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.  

HUMILITY is recognizing that a person is more talented than me.  That person is smarter than me so I should learn from them.  That person is really anointed I could use their prayers. JEALOUSY says, what does that person have that I don’t have?  Or why does that person have what I don’t have?

We don’t know we have jealousy until we see the manifestation of it in our actions.

We know what fear feels like. We know when we are angry. But jealousy does not have its own emotion.  We have to look at the outward emotions in order to reveal jealousy. Fear, depression, anger, resentment.

Genesis 4:5 says Cain was very angry and his face was downcast.  He showed two emotions:  anger and depression.  The Bible does not use the word jealous, but we all know Cain’s problem was jealousy toward his brother.  His problem wasn’t that someone else did better than he did. His brother was right and he was wrong.  He was not sorrowful, he was jealous.

No one wants to admit they are jealous. When God asked Cain what was wrong, he wanted to know what is the real problem here.  We can see it in others but we don’t want to admit it. We would rather say we are angry, or depressed.  But the way you know it is jealousy is when your anger or depression has to do with someone else.  What they are doing or what you are perceiving their actions are is causing these emotions.

JEALOUSY is when there is a third party involved and you are afraid of losing that person’s first affection. ENVY is when you feel you are entitled to what someone else has.  In the Greek and Hebrew there is no distinction between the two.  So now, normally in the English language the two interchangeably.