He is jealous for me…
May 19, 2008
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And the heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
He loves us..
He loves us - Kim Walker
Oh how He loves us… really think about that, He REALLY loves us to the point of being jealous of anything that we put before him. He longs…. yearns for a deep relationship with us. He doesn’t want to be just “God who is feared”, he wants to be our personal Savior and FRIEND. He longs for that. He wants to have a personal love encounter with each and every one of us….
I don’t know about you, but that just does my heart all sorts of good. I can’t help to dance and jump up and down when I hear the words to this song. I cant help but raise my hands and lift my head and close my eyes and worship, really worship the God who is jealous for me. And I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way He loves me. They are meaningless compared to His love for me. My cancer is meaningless compared to His love for me, it falls helpless at His feet because no matter what, NO MATTER WHAT, I am His. He paid the ultimate price, the death His only son, for me, that is how much He loves me. I can just curl up in his lap and rest my head on his shoulder when I need to, or I can yell and scream at the top of my lungs that this is soo not fair, I can cry until I have no tears left, until all I have is the ache in my heart and His love for me is the same. It never changes. He never walks away, never abandons me, never disowns me… He always loves me.
Think about that… He always loves us, no matter what we do. There may be consequences for our actions, but they are always loving, never full of anger and always… ALWAYS for our benefit. And those consequences never NEVER change His love for us. He tells me that my sins are as far as the East is from the West, they are on the bottom of the ocean floor. The only way they can be brought back up is if I bring them up, and then He gently reminds me that He has already paid the price, the ultimate price for that sin…whatever that sin might be.
And heres the kicker:
He is jealous for me…
I have a heavenly daddy who is jealous for me.
That makes me smile….
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Thank you, Heather. When I am thankful for my blessings, I am thankful for you and your blog. What you posted today was exactly what I needed to read. Hugs to you! Robin
Thanks and hugs.
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I LOVE this song!! I work with the youth at my church and one of the teens sang this on Feb 13th…this was my first Valentines Day single after 20yrs with my dh and I was so heartbroken until she sang this song…then I realized how MUCH I am loved by the ONLY ONE that matters!! I had the BEST VD ever and all that changed was MY attitude! They also sang it for me on Mothers Day since the youth led the praise and worship in our evening service…there is just something about that song that makes me feel SO LOVED! Also coming from Florida the phrase loves like a hurricane has a lot of meaning to me lol
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That’s one I need to hear more often. I’m amazed at how quickly I forget. (It makes me smile too!)
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This is a great song! Love it and am still praying for you and the family.
Betty in Oklahoma
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I needed this.
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Sweet Heather,
“He always loves us no matter what we do.” I am always amazed when I am reminded of this truth. And that He is jealous for us, I have such a hard time wrapping my mind around that. It humbles me to realize that no matter what I do, He still feels this way about me always. Thank you so much for reminding me of this truth today. I pray it sinks way down in my soul and sticks so I don’t forget, ever. I love you girl and am praying for you to have great peace and joy as your journey continues. I pray for your healing to be perfect in His grace.
Love and Hugs and Prayers, Laurie in Ca.
It makes me smile too! Thank you for sharing these thoughts today.
If you have time, could you please pray for our family? We are in a crisis right now and only God can make sense of it.
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Heather, Beth here. I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time now, and you are truly an incredible woman of God. I have loved reading ‘your story’ and I suppose I’d just like to thank you for this latest post properly. I hope you don’t mind if I continue to ‘read along’ as it were? Blessings from a fellow blogger x x
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Hey Heather, Just wanted to let you know, this song was actually written by John Mark McMillan. If you like this song I am sure you would like some of his others. Praying for you and love hearing how things are going. I’ve been reading your blog for sometime, and you are an amazing woman, mother, and wife. Keep at it!
I love that song. It was written by a guy named John Mark McMillan. The album is “The Song from Inside the Sounds of Breaking Down.” He never wrote the song to be a worship song, it was a song written after the death of his best friend.
I’m praying for you and your family.
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