No Place for Jealousy

Paul listed jealousy as one of the flesh’s works against us in Galatians 5:19-21. He pointed out that practicing the actions he listed there would prevent us inheriting the Kingdom of God. Keeping our eyes on Jesus with a growing desire to be like Him and to please Him will turn our hearts away from jealousy and fear and pride and more.

The fruit of the Spirit of Jesus (Galatians 5:22-23) is capable of eliminating jealousy and all the rest of the works of the flesh from our hearts. We can be free. And – we can inherit the Kingdom of God!

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the workers on one denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. To those men he said, ‘You also go to my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So off they went. About noon and at three, he went out again and did the same thing. Then about five he went and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’
“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.
“‘You also go to my vineyard,’ he told them. When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’
“When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius. So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each. When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner: ‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’
(Matthew 20:1-12 HCSB ©®)