Can Jealousy Bring Hope?

Wait a minute. Have you ever been told that it is not right to be jealous? I have. Have you ever been jealous of someone who showed affection to a girlfriend or boyfriend? I have. Were you told your jealousy was wrong? I was. How about being jealous because someone was showing affection to your spouse? Is that wrong? If jealousy is always wrong, how can it bring hope? Let me take you on my journey to see what I found out.
I find it very interesting that one of the names God gives Himself is El Qanna which translated to English means Jealous. So, since I know God is good and scripture tells us “Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.'”, Mark 10:18 (ESV) then it makes sense to me that being jealous is not always wrong. I asked myself first, what is God jealous of or for? The amazing answer I found was that God is jealous for me. Wait a minute the Infinite God of the universe is jealous for me? He loves me to the point that He wants no one or nothing to interfere with my relationship with Him. I also believe God has a special right to be jealous for me because God created me, and He owns me. “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.” Colossians 1:16 (ESV)
The kind of jealousy in this case is not for God but us. It is a selfless jealousy revealed in the sacrificial death and resurrection of God’s only Begotten Son Jesus. He cared so much for me that He was willing to sacrifice His Son so that I might be in relationship with me.
I believe as a person that I can be jealous in two situations. When someone or something is trying to take me or a fellow believer away from God “For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:2 (ESV) And when someone or something is trying to interfere with the relationship with their spouse. “‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:5-6 (ESV) When jealousy is righteous it brings me hope because my relationship with God is better and more intimate and my relationship with my spouse can be stronger and more secure.
So, join me in knowing that God is El Qanna. and that He is jealous for a relationship with me and with you. Because God is El Qanna God always has a plan for our Lives. He will protect us and answer us and that gives us hope. God is the only One who can give you true hope. He will make all things right as you search to receive hope for yourself and then give hope to others by living in God’s faithfulness. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross satisfied the penalty for my sins and yours as well. It satisfied all my sins from the past, in the present and in the future. My penalty and yours was satisfied on the cross by the death of Jesus, God’s greatest act of love and wrath, who became sin for me and you. It was also God’s greatest act of faithfulness because “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 (ESV) Because of that we ought to believe in Jesus. I hope that you join me in choosing Jesus.
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