“God is jealous.” 
              — Nahum 1:2

Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you?
He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his
own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your
own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a love
that he would not stop in heaven without you; he would sooner die than
you should perish, and he cannot endure that anything should stand
between your heart’s love and himself. He is very jealous of your
trust. He will not permit you to trust in an arm of flesh. He cannot
bear that you should hew out broken cisterns, when the overflowing
fountain is always free to you. When we lean upon him, he is glad, but
when we transfer our dependence to another, when we rely upon our own
wisdom, or the wisdom of a friend-worst of all, when we trust in any
works of our own, he is displeased, and will chasten us that he may
bring us to himself. He is also very jealous of our company. There
should be no one with whom we converse so much as with Jesus. To abide
in him only, this is true love; but to commune with the world, to find
sufficient solace in our carnal comforts, to prefer even the society of
our fellow Christians to secret intercourse with him, this is grievous
to our jealous Lord. He would fain have us abide in him, and enjoy
constant fellowship with himself; and many of the trials which he sends
us are for the purpose of weaning our hearts from the creature, and
fixing them more closely upon himself. Let this jealousy which would
keep us near to Christ be also a comfort to us, for if he loves us so
much as to care thus about our love we may be sure that he will suffer
nothing to harm us, and will protect us from all our enemies. Oh that
we may have grace this day to keep our hearts in sacred chastity for
our Beloved alone, with sacred jealousy shutting our eyes to all the
fascinations of the world!

On this day...

• Joshua 4 - 2023
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• Matthew 5:37 - 2011
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• LIAR - 2010
• INTERCESSION - 2010
• HATE - 2010
• GROW - 2010
• GIFT - 2010