The Heavenly Father Is Jealous Over You

The word jealous or jealousy has been given a bad name. It really means zealous, someone that is zealous for your good and benefit. Someone that will sacrifice for your pleasure and well being is jealous for you. Today the only use of the word is usually a negative idea. We speak of jealousy as bad people that makes the one jealous for miserable and unhappy. That form of jealousy is evil and to be rejected. But to read of jealousy in the Bible we must interpret it as the Holy Spirit meanest to inspired truth to us. Our Heavenly Father created man for His pleasure, but  it was not a selfish pleasure. “Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.” (Joel 2:18) Again The Bible shows us How the Father watches over us with His jealousy.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury”.(Zechariah 8:2) When you are received and chosen of the Lord He will care for you, chasten you in error and restore you in repentance. In fact the Scripture declares that a person without chastisement is not even a son. “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? (Hebrews 12:7)