If you read carefully and listen to God speaking to His covenant people Israel in the OT, God makes it very plain that He is a jealous God and a consuming fire (Deut. 4:24). Moses, speaking for God, warns the people that the covenant made is not something to be taken lightly. Over and over God speaks reminding them, warning them and laying out before their eyes the way of life and the way of death.
When we think of jealousy, it makes us uneasy because we have a hard time reconciling the fact that jealousy is a part of being fleshly and wisdom of the world. However, this jealousy is not in a bad sense but a good sense that instead of God taking from another, He wants others to share in Him and Him alone! We are the covenant people if we are in Christ Jesus! God has not changed in His desire for His people that He jealousy desires His Spirit to dwell in us (Jam. 4:5). In all this, God is speaking from heaven: "Do not give to others what belongs to Me!" That brings us to asking: What belongs to God and not to others? The jealousy of God reveals that it upset Him to be rejected and refused when He wants to give His love, mercy, holiness and righteousness to us! God wants a relationship with us!!! Some do not believe that. He jealousy desires to dwell within us! God must have first place in our lives because He is a consuming fire and jealous (Heb. 12:28-29). That means our relationship should not be taken light-heartedly. Isn't is good to know that God wants us?
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