"Faye's daily words of encouragement"# 101 Todays word is: Jealous

Definition of the word  Jealous: Suspicious of a rival or of one believed to enjoy an advantage, obsessed over attentions and affection given to someone else.

Exodus chapter 20 -5 : Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I , thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Deuteronomy chapter 6 - 15 : For the Lord thy God is a Jealous God among you) lest the angel of the Lord thy God to be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

2 Corinthians chapter 11 - 2 : For I am jealous over you with godly jealous: for I have s, and slain by espoused you to one husband, that I may present as a chaste virgin to Christ.

 King 19 - 10 :  And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of host's: for the children of Isreal have forsaken thy covenant thrown down thine altars, and slain by prophets with a sword; and I, even I only, to take it away. 

At one point in our lives; we  all have been around someone that's jealous of us or of our actions, we all know that people, that's jealous; don't you want you involved with other people even if there nothing going on. Jealousy is an action taken; when one person or another is jealous of the attention or affections' we're giving to someone else.  Our God is no difference; He's jealous God, so, we as children of God; should serve God and have no other god before him.

We all should live our lives according to be any reason g his word; so there want be any reason for God 's jealousy to stirred up against us.  Let our love and actions show God that he have no reason to be jealous; because our love and actions is pure and from the heart.

Benny Faye Douglass