Learning to Live From a Heart of RestSample

The Community of the Beloved

Wherever you are in this journey of living from God’s love, you have a Father who sees you and sings over you. Zephaniah 3:17 says, “He will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” That word exult simply means “to delight or celebrate.” You are invited every day to be tucked underneath the mighty arm of the original Singer of life as He belts out His love over you.

As we grow in our knowledge and experience of who God is—His attributes, His love over us, His faithfulness to us—we can’t help but respond and sing with our mouths and our hearts and our lives. This is what worship is! It’s our response to God that says that we see Him for the treasure He is and we can’t help but sing! It’s that beautiful reconciliation of our hearts with His that sings out, “God, You are enough—You are the life I’ve been longing for.”

We begin to teem with contentment in the inner places of our hearts, and we shake loose the old habit of trying to make a way for ourselves. We finally stop marching to the beat of our own puny little tunes, and we suddenly have space for the songs of others. In fact, the spill-over of our trust in God to make a way for us is that our singing also becomes our seeing. We look outward and we truly see the people that God has so strategically and lovingly placed in our care. 

Don’t worry, I’m not asking you to start singing to everyone you meet. What I am suggesting is that your life sings. Here’s the best part, you don’t have to come up with a song to sing! You simply learn to listen to God’s song over you! As you live from God and your own Belovedness, imagine how it frees you to pursue the people around you. To sing over them with your life, a declaration that says that they too are the Beloved of God!

Who has God brought into your life this week for you to see and sing over?