Heart turned to another

Several months ago while I was alone trying to pray and seek God, he allowed me to feel how his heart felt in one area. I was reminded of a time in my life when I was consumed by this one girl. She was all that I had thought about day and night and I truly enjoyed being around her and with her. I can honestly say that I absolutely loved/love her. One evening we were alone outside and she began to tell me how she desired to get back together with the person she had broken up with just a few months before. My heart was broken. I had seen that relationship and while she was in it she was not treated right. He was always belittling her in public and honestly in several ways hurting her. Maybe not physically hurting her but emotionally ruining her. As I was thinking about this I began to wonder. How many times do we do this to God. We spend time with him and tell him that we love him; however, we are constantly reminding him of that other love that we have in our life. Telling him of the things that we want to do apart from him, or reminding him of the relationships that have drawn us further away from him. While we are doing this he is sitting there weeping asking us if we even understand. If we only knew how he wanted to love us. How he desired to wrap us in his arms and tell us that we are loved. Telling us how, if only given the chance, he would be all that we ever wanted and needed.

God has said many times throughout the old and new testament that he is jealous when we turn our hearts to other lovers. (Ex. 20:15) He even tells us in Exodus 34 that his name is Jealous. In 2 Cor. Paul talks about how we have been promised to one husband, that we might be presented as a pure bride; but, that God is even afraid that our minds will be led astray from our sincere and pure devotion to Christ. We need to Analyze our lives to find the areas where we have other lovers. What are you not willing to give up or lay down for Christ? It is in those areas that you have built up other lovers, or idols. I have found that the only place I do not have power in my life are the areas of which I have not completely laid down.