God's jealous for you

I'm really thankful that God is jealous for me...for you!  It's kinda something we don't talk about much....God being jealous for us, but He is.  You are so special to Him because He made you unique and beautiful as you are and He wants me and you!!!

It's not a coming and going kind of jealousy that we often experience here on earth (for example a favorite item that your friend has that you want or more for me it could be watching a horse trainer doing amazing things with their horses and wanting so bad to have that kind of relationship and fame with my horses!)....With God it's a relentless pursuit!  He pursues us.  Sometimes I feel that I need to pursue God every second in order to be loved by Him, but He's constantly reminding me that He's jealous of me and even pursues me when I'm flopping!   I laughed a bit when I came to this realization because no one loves me like that.  Let's face it, I don't have much to offer even on a good day.  God's jealousy is strong enough to love me and pursue me when I'm running away, ignoring Him, want nothing to do with Him, or searching for answers, or caught up in a whirlwind of life matters, or just plain flopping, etc.  The flopping doesn't bother Him at all!  He pursues us all the more it seems!

Recently, I was focused on something else and really thought I'd get an answer by doing this thing but I found it very unsatisfying.  I later came to realize that I had put my entire trust/hope in the wrong thing and when my high hopes came crashing down, I questioned God and my motives.  What God really did was instead of satisfying me with an answer that was not directly through Him, He made me thirsty and cry out for an answer directly from Him.  Since God was jealous for me, He wanted to be the only one to supply my need!  Not through someone else. Not through circumstances.  Not through my own reasoning.  Not by chance.  Through Him!  It's so very satisfying when relief and satisfaction comes through God.  It's a moment to soak in for sure!  I long for those moments!

I'm sure there are other reasons why God lets us be unsatisfied or find satisfaction through things other than Him, but one of the reasons I believe that God does this is to draw us closer to Him and to make us realize that He alone holds the answers we long for (even if they take forever getting to us....or seem to never come) because of His jealously for us!  He longs for us to love Him and will do anything to get our hearts and minds focused back to Him.  I love that!  God's jealous for me, and will do anything to get my attention and love!

Sometimes it's good to focus on how much we are loved by God.  Then praise God for how much He loves you!  I'm grateful that God is jealous for me!