Scripture tells us in Exodus 20:4-5..“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God.”
God! Jealous? I had always had a tough time understanding that verse. I got the part about not putting anything before God in importance. Don't worship money or power. Don't put your faith in man or possessions. I understood that. It was that jealousy part that kind of threw me.
God's jealousy, I began to understand is a zealous desire to preserve our relationship with Him. He desires to hold us close, not out of a sense of possessing us, but out of a sense of protecting us. He knows the damage that evil can do. It infects us with disease. It contaminates our thinking with poverty. Evil seeks to kill us! God in His jealousy, says to darkness, "Not this one! My Son Jesus died for this one!
I thank God for His Divine jealousy...it's a good thing!
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