You ever wonder how God can be a jealous God? I mean why would God be jealous? Is not envy something God warned us about?

Have you ever loved somebody only to find out that that somebody is talking to another person? Jealousy raged inside of you didn’t it? But let’s analyze the reason. You were jealous because you wanted to give that person your love. You were jealous because you knew that he or she would never receive the love that you want to give them.

It is the same way with God. When I spend hours and hours in front of the television, God is jealous. Because God knows that the love that the tube gives me cannot compare to the love that God has in store for me.

When I turned to alcohol instead of turning to God, God was jealous. He knew that there’s not message inside that bottle. There’s no love at the bottom of that bottle. Yet I turn to it instead of turning to him.

To think that the God of the universe is a jealous God. He is crazy about me. C.S. Lewis said that “if you were the only person alive, Christ would have still died for you, nothing less.”

This God wants to know me. He wants to love me. How do I know this? Just look towards the cross of Jesus Christ. How can you miss it?

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