Monday, January 17, 2005

Jealous ?

Today in my bible study I have hit upon the topic of jealousy, in this case its to do with saul (cuz thats who I'm studying at the moment). I like the story of Saul/Paul, a real nasty peice of work that comes good (it would make a good novel or film adaptation). Anyhoo, the story goes . . . after His encounter with the Big guy, Saul goes and works and learns with this guy named Barnabas (no not Barabas!) and goes from country to country evangelising the good news. After a while it becomes apparent that Saul has quite a talent for preaching to the non-Jews. Where once it was . . ."Look, there goes Barnabas and Saul", now it was like . . ."Look, there goes SAUL and barnabas". Any lesser man would have cracked. I mean Barny took this hobo under his wing and looked after him and taght him, when others around were still like..."look thats Saul, the big crazy christian-hater who stoned stephen!" But Barnabas took it in his sride and enjoyed the success that Paul was now having.
Todays Challenge . . . There are loads of other stories of jealousy in the bible, see if you can think of any. (the guys in the pod will have one straight away!)
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