Jealousy interferes with the capacity to
think logically, for its motives are wrong and sinful. Rachel desperately wanted
children, so she gave her maidservant Bilhah to her husband Jacob as a
surrogate wife to have children in her place. In the strictest sense, this was
permissible according to the ethics of the day. Spiritually, it was not
acceptable because anger and jealousy existed in Rachel’s heart for her sister
Leah.
Rachel
wanted to get even with Leah, so when Bilhah conceived and gave birth to two
sons, Rachel proclaimed God had heard her plea. However, when jealousy is the
motivating factor behind any behavior, God does not approve.
Jealousy overrules love and logic. If jealousy is
occupying a place in your heart, let it go by asking God to bless the person
that’s the object of the jealousy. This is how you turn it over to God. He
emphatically states: "Vengeance is mine. I will repay." Believe God
and trust Him.
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