–noun, plural -ous·ies for 4.
1.
jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
3.
vigilance in maintaining or guarding something.
4.
I was reading through Deuteronomy today and do you know how many times it states that our God is a jealous God...I didn't count, but it says it quite a few times.
I mean think about it...what do you feel like when you get jealous? Mad, frustrated, and just plain upset. And why do you feel like that? Because people aren't paying attention to you. Maybe you did your hair a certain way and someone isn't noticing. You answer a question and you are really happy, but your teacher doesn't give you any acknowledgement, but the second Susie what's her face answers your teacher praises her non-stop. So you get jealous right?
Can you imagine that God gets jealous everytime you worship something else? I mean He clearly says that He is a jealous God and therefore we should not have any other gods before Him.
Deuteronomy 32: 16 says, "Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry."
Think about for a second. What do you put ahead of God in your life? Now think about how you feel when you get jealous and imagine that that is what you are doing to God every time you put something else in your life above Him.
It is by NO means easy to put God above everything. I feel like in today's society it is all about what's next. You graduate from high school and you are immediately thinking about what is next. Then you start college, so what are you going to do with the rest of your life? You need to figure it out quickly to graduate in four years. EVERYTHING seems to be about planning for something down the road. And when that stuff all seems so important it is easy to put God aside because we know that he will ALWAYS be there.
I know that I have a tendency to put off reading my Bible or put off praying because I know that God already knows what my thoughts are and I have a lot of homework, but that isn't what it should be like. I think remembering how I feel when I get jealous and knowing that when I put something above God causes him to feel like that will help me to try and turn towards him more and more.
It won't always be easy, and I am probably going to slip more than a few times, but I think that it will be worth it.
Hawk Nelson wrote a song called Crazy Love.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFlW_j4G1A
Deuteronomy 32: 16 says, "Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry."
Think about for a second. What do you put ahead of God in your life? Now think about how you feel when you get jealous and imagine that that is what you are doing to God every time you put something else in your life above Him.
It is by NO means easy to put God above everything. I feel like in today's society it is all about what's next. You graduate from high school and you are immediately thinking about what is next. Then you start college, so what are you going to do with the rest of your life? You need to figure it out quickly to graduate in four years. EVERYTHING seems to be about planning for something down the road. And when that stuff all seems so important it is easy to put God aside because we know that he will ALWAYS be there.
I know that I have a tendency to put off reading my Bible or put off praying because I know that God already knows what my thoughts are and I have a lot of homework, but that isn't what it should be like. I think remembering how I feel when I get jealous and knowing that when I put something above God causes him to feel like that will help me to try and turn towards him more and more.
It won't always be easy, and I am probably going to slip more than a few times, but I think that it will be worth it.
Hawk Nelson wrote a song called Crazy Love.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFlW_j4G1A
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