He is Jealous For Me

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.


Oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all.


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 an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don't have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way...

Oh, how He loves us so,

Oh how He loves us, 

How He loves us all.
How He Loves ~ David Crowder Band

I've been thinking about this song for at least a week now. I just can't get it out of my head. I just love the words. They describe God's love for us so poetically. I first heard this song about a month ago during Sunday morning worship service. Our worship team sang it and I instantly liked it. Then I forgot about the song for a while. I got an email about a week and a half ago and the subject was this song. I looked it up on you tube and have been singing it ever since. I have downloaded it to my Ipod and needless to say I have been singing it so much that I'm sure I'm driving my family crazy. I know the Lord keeps bringing this song to my mind for a reason. He loves me so much. He loves us all so much and He wants us to know it and to feel His love for us.

So . . . I finished this post and hopped in the shower. As I was washing my hair I got this terrible sinking feeling. It was a feeling that I would compare to arriving to class one morning and realizing that you forgot to do your homework. I realized that I wasn't finished with this post. Actually, God wasn't finished with this post. He has more to say here. Well, anyway . . . here's the rest of it.

He is jealous for me. What does that mean exactly? To me it means that He wants our time and our attention. And that's not all He wants. He wants our love, our worship, our obedience, our thankfulness, our faithfulness . . . He wants all of us. He wants us to give everything that we are and everything that we have to Him to be used for His purpose. He wants us to come to Him and consult Him in every decision, to talk to Him like He is our best friend. (He is you know.) He is our best friend and our Father. He wants to hear about triumphs, our fears and everything in between. He is the only one that we will ever know that will never hurt us. He is perfect in all ways.

We should all take a good look at our lives and figure out what is keeping us from Him. Maybe it's some secret sin that no one else knows about. Pornography? Adultery? Lying? Overeating? Maybe it's something that you would never even consider sinful. It could be watching TV, surfing the internet, reading or knitting.  I have to admit that as silly as it seems, I have let knitting come between me and the Lord. I have gotten involved in an intricate project and have spent all of my free time knitting instead of spending time in the Lord. He wants us to put Him first in our lives. He doesn't want to be second, third . . . or tenth. He wants our best, not our leftovers.