Day Nineteen..."The Green Eyed Monster and What to do With Critics?"

The story of Joseph is one my favorite in the entire Bible. His brothers saw life through the "green eyed monster" of jealousy. Jealousy brings out the worst in behavior. How could brothers be jealous enough to even consider killing their own brother over a coat of many colors? Thank God for Reuben to "cool" his brothers hostilities. The decision to throw Joseph into a well and sell him into slavery was bad enough...and a deceiving story of being devoured by a wild animal. Have we ever had jealousy at our doorstep and become so angry we did something irrational? Psalm 19 contains the prayer sometimes prayed before a sermon...
"May the words of my mouth and the medetation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock, and my Redeemer." The Matthew reading also has critics. Jesus is criticized for healings a paralytic and for eating with sinners. Jealousy is often the root of hostilities. Jesus answers his critics by saying... "it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." Is this statement not marching orders for the Church?