God Is Jealous

God Is Jealous

“He jealously desires the spirit He let dwell in us; but He gives more grace.”

We have received our human spirit from God. When God wants to speak to us, He does it through our spirit, but Satan appeals to sin in the flesh—our lusts. Our spirit is permeated by sin if we live according to our lusts. Sin causes separation between God and us. Then we die in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1-3), and God cannot speak to us; our spirit is dead to God’s workings. Nevertheless, God jealously desires our spirit. Therefore He intervenes in our lives to wake us up. Most people have to go through very trying experiences before they can be awakened to an acknowledgment.

However, even after a person has turned to God, his spirit is still bound to earthly things as well as to carnal relatives and friends. He is unfaithful and is friends with the world. God is jealous to redeem such people. He can let a man lose everything he owns in order to redeem him and show him the corruption. He can let a man become an invalid while he is still young in order to redeem him from his honor-seeking and pride. God’s watchfulness and jealousy are revealed through innumerable ways in great and small things. “But He gives more grace.” God helps correspondingly.

The devil shows up just as faithfully to explain to the soul that a loving God cannot treat him like that. His work is to get people to say farewell to God. Job 1:11. But if you understand God’s jealousy in redeeming you and cleansing your spirit from sin in the flesh, then you also understand His care and love, and you will do as it is written: “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”