MY SOUL’S SOLE DESIRE
By Akin Ojumu I’m afraid that not a whole lot of professing Christians are cognizant of the fact that the LORD of Our God is a jealous God. The idea of a Holy God being jealous is not something that crosses the mind of a vast majority of those who call themselves children of God. That general lack of awareness sends cold shivers down my spine. To what can we ascribe this head buried in the sand attitude towards God’s jealousy? It isn’t that God hasn’t made it explicitly clear in the Bible that He is a jealous God. Exodus 20:2-6 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third...