Divine jealousy is thus a zeal to protect a love relationship or to avenge it when it is broken. Jealousy in God is that passionate energy by which He is provoked and stirred and moved to take action against whatever or whoever stands in the way of His enjoyment of what He loves and desires. The intensity if God’s anger at threats to this relationship is directly proportionate to the depths of His love… Jealousy in God is not a “green-eyed monster” but a “red-faced lover” who will brook no rivals in His relationship with His people.

Sam Storms
Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God (NavPress – www.navpress.org, 2000), 295

The value of an object is often reflected by the price we are willing to pay for it.  Have you ever considered what God was willing to ‘pay’ for you?” … “God ‘ransomed’ you with the most valuable thing He had, His Son, to die for our sins.  God paid the highest price possible to redeem our souls.  That ought to tell us something.”

Dr. Chris Thurman
The Lies We Believe (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999), 221

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need.

John Newton
www.crosswalk.com