Goodbye, Jesus.

Love is meant to be exclusive.  If you don't believe me, then fall in love with someone, and then watch your response if that person becomes intimate with someone else--it isn't pretty.  Yet God is a jealous God.  He is jealous for a relationship with you.  Yes, you, even with all your flaws and shortcomings.  Do you realize that the Scriptures tell us that He thinks more thoughts about you in one night than there are grains of sand on the whole planet?  You talk about being enraptured by somebody!  In short, He absolutely loves and adores you and wants the best for your life.  "But what about my sins?" you might ask.  He loved you so much that He died to pay the price for them, so that He could have a relationship with you.  "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."  1 John 1:9.  However, so many of us profess to know and love Jesus, but we also want to love "the world."  In other words, we engage in spiritual adultery.  That doesn't sound too nice, does it?  But it is true, and it needs to stop, for the best of the relationship.  For loving Jesus and loving the world is inconsistent and just doesn't work.  And, tragically, one day, at the judgment seat, such "believers" will have to part ways with Jesus, for Jesus simply won't be one of many.  So think about it: for all that you know about Jesus' love, grace, forgiveness, and all that He has done for you, can you imagine having to eternally say "goodbye, Jesus"?  Wake up before it is too late and foster your relationship with Jesus Christ.  You'll never regret it.