Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

With over a billion streams on Spotify alone, Jealousy Jealousy by Olivia Rodrigo is clearly relatable.

The song is a lament of sorts, putting words to

the feeling of jealousy, the struggle of comparison, and the tormenting end it brings you to.

Olivia Rodrigo would rather be anyone, anyone else. Listen to the portrayal of her stream of

thoughts as she experiences jealousy.

All your friends are so cool. You go out every night. In your daddy's nice car, yeah, you're living the life.

Got a pretty face, a pretty boyfriend too. I want to be you so bad and I don't even know you.

All I see is what I should be. Happier, prettier, jealousy, jealousy. All I see is what I should be. Happier, prettier, jealousy, jealousy.

All I see is what I should be. I'm losing it. All I gets, jealousy, jealousy. You hear the

torture of jealousy in comparison, right? And you can probably empathize. Looking out into the world, be it a digital or a physical one,

you're bound to interact with someone who has something that you want,

someone prettier, smarter, wealthier, nicer, more successful.

You want what they have.

And when you look at them, all you see is what you aren't,

what you wish you could be, like them,

but you can't be them. And if you let that jealousy grow, if you compare, if you let it fester,

you'll lose it. Her experience is not unique, thus the popularity of her song. It's baked into the human existence to compare, to want what you can't have.

Think all the way back to the garden, original sin, Adam and Eve, wanting to be more,

wanting to be like God, wallowing in their lack, consumed by desire, they rebel. Jealousy, jealousy, consumed by the ways you don't measure

up. I wish I was like her. I wish I could be like him. Does it ever end? The bad news is that the

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