Jealous for us

Today I read through Exodus 20. I am going through the Old Testament (OT) for my spiritual reading right now. Not exactly optimal for meditating on during prayer, but the Holy Spirit is a "stealthy" guy and has His ways to each of our hearts. My eyes fell upon Ex 20:4-5 and stayed there. It is in the midst of the 10 commandments - very strange meditation, I know. But here it is:

"You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is 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."

As I thought about this, I was filled with joy! Our Father in heaven is jealous for me... and for each of you! You know the feeling, when you are in a relationship and your bf is paying more attention to video games, school, friends, sports, etc. and you are jealous of the time and attention he is paying to everything except YOU. That is how God feels for us every moment of every day. See me, love me, receive me... you are woman, I made you to receive and to be an example of how to fill up with with my love. Notice me... spend time with ME! I LOVE YOU, my daughter.

So I began to list the things that God would be jealous of - the things that steal my attention, distract me or turn my glance from Him. The biggest one being relationships... esp. with men. Ugh. Will that ever go away?!?! Why do I value other men (mortal and fallen) and their opinion of me more than my Father's opinion of me? He is the one who can make overflow with joy, love, value, worth, etc. God is trying in every way possible to get my attention and to love me, but I don't always turn my attention to HIm - He who satisfies our hungry hearts. Instead I settle for the cheap, quick fix that is shiny on the outside but hallow on the inside.

But unlike us, He is not selfish - He is LOVE - always giving of Himself. It is difficult to understand or wrap my mind around it, but He is thinking of me... and each of HIs children... at every moment of every day. We need not be jealous because His love is more than enough - if only we would RECEIVE IT!!!!!

Here is a perfect song for how our God is jealous for us