Killing and jealousy

⁹ Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. ¹⁰ Amasa was not on his guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab plunged it into his belly, and his intestines spilled out on the ground. Without being stabbed again, Amasa died. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bikri.
¹¹ One of Joab’s men stood beside Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!” ¹² Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him. ¹³ After Amasa had been removed from the road, everyone went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.

Jealousy, What a powerful word. God knew that jealousy would kill us, look at what Joab had done here? He killed his brother because of Amasa's rise to power under David! This is the power of jealousy. Although in this world, we are likely not to kill, we ask ourselves, do we fear God more or do we fear the consequence? If we say we fear God more, do we really? Do we really fear God more? If we can kill without consequences would we kill? That's what jealousy can lead to. What drives us sometimes is jealousy. We need to look past that and look at Christ's glory. The glory of Christ is more worth to work towards than just plain jealousy. We can be jealous of someone's results and we work like a mad dog towards that, but hey. Christ died for us. We as Christians claim God's victory. We should claim it in His name. The question is do we?