Monday, December 11, 2006

jelousy take 2.

2nd attemt at this. lets hope it doesnt dissappear this time.

there are lots of songs saying that jelousy is wrong. but is it? it says in the bible that God is a jelous God(*?????????????????????*****). so if God is jelous, then surely its ok for us to be jelous as well? after all, arent we meant to be trying to be as perfect as God? well ive been thinking about this recently. anyway, what ive come up with is this. the jelousy that God has is different from the jelousy that we have. God is jelous of the devil because God resents the devil for taking His(God's) creation away from Him(God). God has a right to feel this way as we belong to God but the devil has taken us away by being manipulative. we on the other hand have no rights to anything. we get jelous over worldly things which leads to hate of other people, and God is a God of love so cant be in hatred so jelousy in that sense is wrong. if we are jelous FOR God, then that is godly and so isnt wrong. being jelous FOR God is by resenting the devil for taking ourselves and others away from God, this isnt resenting the people, just the devil. this is really hard to do but is the only form of pure and right jelousy. which means ive just convicted myself. hmm a few issues to get sorted methinks. maybe when im slightly less tired tho. woopedeedoo thatll probably be never cos im always tired..... well at least ive still got this post.

ill leave you with a silly comment thatll probably ruin the profoundness of this post: song to do with windows. #waiting for hours, hours turn to days, days turn to years but im still here....

1 Comments:

Blogger s0upy said...

A wise young owl recently explained to me the difference between jealousy and envy. He was saying that envy is when we want what someone else has got, and that we often wrongly use the word 'jealousy' to describe this. And jealousy is when we're protective over what we have got. So when we read that God is a jealous God, it makes sense in this context.

Envy is clearly wrong, but jealousy can be righteous and good. I guess the key is to be jealous for the same things that God is jealous for - the journey of a lifetime discovering this and getting it right!

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