Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.

‭‭Zephaniah‬ ‭1‬:‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

-I bet you missed it. 

Read that verse again. 

If you miss it, it’s literally not the end of the world. 

-Jealousy is the driver of God’s wrath. 

-Nothing makes God more angry than when his creation misdirects their love and worship to idols and false gods. 

-He is jealous like a jilted lover, only much much worse. 

-What’s it like to have a god who is so deeply and madly in love with you, so much so that when you seek a relationship with something or someone else or elevate a creation of your own hands to god status, he flies off into a rightful jealous rage?

-Most of us concur that nobody has ever loved us so much that our unfaithfulness has provoked  such response. Add our accumulated sins to the mix and it’s even harder to believe anyone might love us at all. 

-Yet, that’s the mystery of our faith. A loyal, monogamous relationship between a faithful God and you, his creation, warts and all. 

-Jealousy is the heartbreaking concern that you believe you can be happier with another.