How Could I Be Jealous?

When I was a young man, I remember how jealous I became when I saw a girl smile at another boy.  I fumed. I fumed even though I didn’t have a relationship with the girl! While I liked her from a distance, and she probably didn’t know my name, that did not stop me from feeling jealous when she smiled at another boy. Since then, I’ve learned that relations with humans are hard enough because of the limitation of time we have one with another… the fact that humans have other ‘love’ interests. It’s curious but I’m not jealous when Jesus smiles on another. In fact, I want Jesus to smile on others! I pray that happens! Why the difference? Well, when it comes to Christ’s capacity to love, his loving is to overflow…  In fact, he has more reason to be jealous of me! given the limitations of time and attention that I put into our relationship. Otherwise, He is with me twenty-four hours, seven days a week and as for his interest in me, I am told that I am the apple of his eye.  Of course, Jesus feels that way for millions of others – if not billions.  All whom he knows, he loves to the full. How could I ever be jealous?