Personal Narrative: Jealousy

I was engaged once in my life. My girlfriend desire to get married was so extent that she bought the engagement ring. I was very immature handling relationships, and that usually left me with a heap of misfortunes. I did not care for her, and I took the relationship as a sport. I was unfaithful to her many times over. When I finally had enough courage to leave her for another girl, I did. At first she did not know the full extend to why I had left her. She continually made attempts to win me back. It was not long enough that she saw me with my new girlfriend, and she suspected that I had been unfaithful to her. Her fury had raised to a level that I had never seen before. At first she became physical with me. Later she sliced the tires on my …show more content…
According to Peter Salovey, PhD (1991) he states, “Jealousy is an emotion experienced when a person is threatened by the loss of an important relationship with another person (the “partner”) to a “rival” (usually another person, but not necessarily so).” I hated my ex for what she had done to my car until Jesus came into my life. Then I had realized that it was my fault to why my ex had behaved so enraged. I had treated my ex with contempt. One of God’s characteristic is that He his very jealous. God is every jealous God. (Exodus 20:5). Throughout the entire Bible, God’s jealously is patriated in different forms. “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27 NASB). Everyone belongs to God, “Behold, all souls are Mine… (Ezequiel 18:4). And again, the Bible says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. (Psalms 24:1). God is jealous for His creation. The Bible expresses that God is the rightful owner of everything; therefore, He has every right to be jealous. But why would God be jealous in the first …show more content…
According to Timothy Keller, idols is, “It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.” Timothy Keller explains that the human heart takes things like material possessions, family, success, love and turn them into ultimate things. Keller goes on saying that people heart are taking this things and deify them as the center of their lives, because people think that this things can give them a sense of security, safety and fulfillment. Not only external things can be a deity in people