If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.
Self-love is, no doubt, the usual foundation of human jealousy...the fear lest another should by any means supplant us.
Author: Charles Spurgeon Source: A Jealous God, Sermon 502, March 29, 1863.
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.
Author: Sam Storms Source: Pleasures Evermore, p. 302
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 120.
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.