This week: God as jealous. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. Our God already knows that there is no love as deep and wide as God's love for God's beloved. So to turn to other lovers - other powers - other assurances for life is a crushing blow. But God as jealous does not find ways to make us regret our foolishness. Rather God continues to be just who God is - endlessly loving. Too often the only way we see this side of God is when the gods of our life are failing us and we look back at old promises from our God who stick by those promises. We look back and see God as jealous for our love - God staying put - God forever still available even through rejection. Go as jealous will not be less loving of us because we act like fools and pursue other lovers. God continues to love. O God of love and new life, you long to be our God and for us to be your people - to trust in your unending love. We can only imagine that experience as we are able to imagine what jealousy feels like. And yet, as a jealous God you continue to abide and wait for us to have new eyes. Amen. |
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