Godly jealousy vs Satan's jealousy

Imagine some man falls in love with a woman. He wants to get to know her more but she’s always so busy. That guy is going to experience an emotion called jealousy. He’s going to be jealous for her time and attention.

Did you know that God gets jealous too?

Deuteronomy 4:23-24 So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

God’s love is like anger and fury. If God has a friend that He’s walked with for some time and they stopped praying/spending alone time with Him for like a week because they’re taking care of a friend of theirs or something, He’ll be probably be thinking “I’m so jealous of that friend of theirs getting all their love and attention.” That would be the case even if they’re doing some work for God like charity or Church stuff. You can work for your boss and not know them at all. You only know them if you spend time with them. A man needs a lover much much more than he needs employees.

Back to the story... He probably won’t say anything to the person until a later time (Rev. 2:4 “You have left your first love”) because He wants people to choose to seek Him. He respects everyone’s free choice. There’s no romance without choice. When you choose Him, His fire will engulf you. That fire burns away the evil within us a little at a time over the years.

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Jealousy happens when we want something. Say you want a lot of money just to be financially free from people. If you haven’t yet achieved that and someone you know does, you’re going to be jealous.

I think that there are two kinds of jealousy. Godly jealousy and Satan’s jealousy.

With Satan’s jealousy, you see someone get something you value or want then you proceed to try to pull them down and away from it.

With God’s jealousy, you see someone get something you value or want then you’re even more motivated to get one of your own.

Personally, I get so jealous of someone that has just gotten to know Jesus and their face is glowing every day and they’re crying in worship all the time. “Stop showing off” lol. But I’m happy for them because I know what it feels like. At the same time, I want to ask them to give it to me. That’s only when I’m in times of testing. In the ghetto of the Christian walk. When times of refreshment come, I join them in their dancing and joy. That thing is so expensive. Gold can’t buy it. Mansions can’t be traded for it. Prestige and honour of men are worthless near it.

The times I’ve had Satan’s jealousy of wanting to pull someone down is when I began to value Earthly things like cars and houses too highly. It can creep up when I spend a lot of time in certain environments like an online investing platform. So I have boundaries around such environments.

I’d say that the only way to turn Satan’s jealousy into Godly jealousy is getting to know (getting entwined with) God on a personal level daily. You’ll become one with the heart of the Father and you’ll begin to love everyone with a father’s love.

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I believe that jealousy is based on personal value systems. Another word for jealous is zealous (passion). I don’t think the goal is to not have zeal for anything but to have Godly jealousy or have what some people may call an abundance mindset where you want the thing but know that there is plenty for you to go get. Knowing that for you to win, someone else doesn’t have to lose. Actually, for you to win, a lot of other people are going to have to win. We’re all connected. We’re in a 4x100m relay against the devil and his minions, it’s only that if you run your race and pass the baton on with excellence you’ll be rewarded more. There are only two lanes. Those in Satan’s lane have to be saved before the race ends. The race is about gaining the character of Christ and achieving our individual destinies. The first part is more important than the second.

Desire (zeal) without attachment is what pushes the human race forward.

When a person’s desire for God is less than their desire for anything else (even their spouse), the desired will destroy the desirer because only God can hold the place of ultimate/first desire. Desire is stirred by meditation, concentration and environment.

Some spiritual people may say that desire for anything else other than God is wrong. I don’t agree with that. In that case, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy nice things, invent, have babies or achieve our destinies. I believe the ranking of our desires just needs to be ordered with God first. Not just in words.

In conclusion, because two singers value the same thing (notes and their ability to twist their voices and stuff), if one does it better than the other, the one that didn’t do it will be zealous/jealous for it. Whether that’s God’s jealousy or Satan’s jealousy will depend on their actions later on. If there’s a third singer and they don’t value singing that much but just enjoy it as a hobby or something, they won’t be jealous/zealous at all. They just happen to value other things, not that.