THURSDAY WAKE-UP CALL🗣🎤
1 Sam 18:6-9: 19:1-7
Mark 3:7-12*
Cancer is one dreaded and deadly disease☠ that eats away the human body. But something that is more deadly than cancer is our emotions when we leave it unchecked. Emotions like jealousy and resentment, or anger😡 and bitterness.🔥
Just like cancer, unchecked emotions of King Saul in the 1st reading developed into an abnormal behaviour that desired to kill ⚔ David. We all have emotions, and even experienced powerful emotions like those experienced by King Saul. But let us also remember that emotions can be channelled both positively☑ and negatively✖. We either allow them to be our secant or our master.🤷♀
WHAT IS JEALOUSY
According to wikipedia, Jealousy is an emotion; the term generally refers to the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and envy over relative lack of possessions, status or something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a comparator.
Jealousy can be a terrible thing. It is closely linked with our insecurity and difficulty in accepting who we are. It is very difficult to see others surpassing the skills of which we were proud. It is difficult to see people turning their attention away from us to others🙇🏻♂. When we are aware that we have such feelings, then we must realise that it is an evil thing within that is destroying💔 us and also making us destroy others.🔥
The cure for jealousy
The cure for jealousy is for us to accept fully our strengths and our weaknesses and not to measure our success as persons by what we can do or by what people think of us.👌🏼
Let us ask Jesus to make our hearts clean so that we can rejoice with the success of others and be happy for those who have made achievements. Amen🙏🏻
