Our Heavenly Father is jealous, and rightly so. He said: “Do not worship any other god. The Lord your God will not let you love any god except himself.”

True love is protective of what is valuable; it is rightly jealous for single-minded affection. Thus, God is jealously protective of the loving relationship for which all human beings were designed; his jealousy springs from love.

God is appropriately jealous when humans turn away from Him and turn to God-substitutes that cannot satisfy. This is good jealousy. Few understand this!