Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Jealousy: a deadly poison

The devastation caused by jealousy within the Body of Christ are more destructive; churches tear each other apart, lives are completely broken, couples dislocated precious souls leave the church and return to the world. Many reading this article may shrug and say mechanically: I do not feel concerned, I am not a jealous but the fact is that our carnal nature is not reliable at all and must constantly be monitored. We all had gaps, frustrations, emotional needs not provided, or a more or less painful, carefully drowsy, that nothing could awaken. Our actions, our gestures, our reactions, we often betray and reveal what lies within us. How we say hello to a sister, tight lips, the hollow face, devoid of any expression when we focus on an elegant suit, severe way we look at a brother driving the car of our dreams, the irritation that points to our false "Glory to God" to the announcement of a marriage, a promotion, or some other benefit that we are not the recipient is indicative of jealousy that process is essential because it could eventually destroy us. 


Being jealous of someone for who he is or what he is to deny its right to exist, for the jealous person, plagued by pride and self-esteem, excessive, takes a dim view of the attributes and qualities of the other. We see that it is being there for the person who is questioned, it is the same identity as one key, but God only gave itself the right to give people a own, its own character, gifts and talents of its own, according to his good pleasure identity. The fact that some seem more spiritually or physically advantaged than others, does not mean that God preferred to others or they are superior because everything God does is good, (let alone the men created in His image!) but their capabilities, dexterities, their talents and gifts, they are essential to the tasks entrusted to them by God on earth. So there is no reason to envy the benefits of such or such a God does not deceive in his judgments and knowing exactly what he did!
So many of God children today are spiritual orphans, because they had no real spiritual fathers and mothers to take them under their wings and teach the basics of the Christian life and ministry for those who are called. The consequences are what we are seeing: a decay of the true faith and works that accompany it.
The fear of being judged, rejected, misunderstood is that many of us, away from confession. But God calls us to confess our sins to each other to not only be forgiven, but also healed. Jac 5: 16 One does not go without the other. When the Spirit of God enlightens us some horrors, is to make them become light, do not persist in the hide, because the divine probe penetrates the hearts and kidneys. It is an arduous and difficult journey, but the Lord never saw anyone come humbly lay against the stone to be broken on the contrary, it only rebels stumble and are crushed by it.

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