How can a Holy God be Jealous?
How can a Holy God be jealous? A few days ago, a young man asked me how God can be jealous when jealousy is sinful? Let me explain with a hypothetical situation. Suppose you met a beautiful girl and you both loved each other and got married. After a while, if your wife is flirting with a friend of yours, will you be jealous? Is it wrong for you to be jealous? It is not wrong for you to be jealous, because she belongs to you and you only, and you belong only to her. It would help if you were jealous so that you can help her and correct the situation in any way possible. Instead, if you are not jealous, you are harming your marriage and your family. Jealously is not always a bad thing as righteous anger is not bad. Although jealousy and envy are interchangeably used in our modern English language, they mean different things. Sinful jealousy (or envy) is coveting something that does not belong to you. Here is an example of sinful jealousy about King Saul. "...