"Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer.
He cannot bear that you should choose another.
Q: Did He buy you with His own blood?
He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world.
He loved you with such a love that He would not stop in heaven
without you; He would sooner die than you should perish, and He cannot endure that anything should stand between your heart's love and Himself.
He cannot bear that you should hew out broken cisterns, when the overflowing fountain is always free to you.
Let this jealousy which would keep us near to Christ be also a comfort to us,....Oh that we may have grace this day to keep our hearts in sacred chastity for our Beloved alone, with sacred jealousy shutting our eyes to all the fascinations of the world!"
Charles Spurgeon
