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Reference to the jealousy of God and whenever we think about that word, we usually have a negative connotation

like it's wrong to be jealous and it is wrong for us to be jealous, but not God. Think about the

Ten Commandments Exodus chapter 20 verse 4. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any

likeness or anything that's in heaven above or that's in the earth beneath or that's in the water

under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them for I, the Lord, your God, am a

jealous God, visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers on the Children to the Third and the Fourth

Generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me

and keep my commandments. So what does this mean for God to be jealous and why is it right for him

to be jealous? Well, think about it. There are actually ways that are positive for us to be

jealous. I think about Paul and St. Corinthians chapter 11. He says to the church, I have a divine

jealousy for you, which in that reference he's saying, I want your good. I think I'm jealous for

your good. And that's one way in which God is jealous for us. He's jealous for our good. He knows

Exodus chapter 20 that if we bow down and worship false gods, that will lead to death. That will

lead to all kinds of ruin. He is jealous for our good. I think about my wife, like I am jealous

for her affections. I don't want her to give her affections to another man. And that's a good

thing. It's good for me as her husband to want her love and want to love her in a way that she

loves me. Now the deal is I'm imperfect in that love. But that's the beauty of who God is and

what makes God totally different from us when we think about jealousy because so often jealousy

is driven by some kind of insecurity in us. Like we want something we don't have or even to use

example of my marriage. Like there could be a fear in me, a jealousy in me that's afraid my wife

is going to find someone or something better than me. But this is where I want us to see.

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