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You Are God’s Delight

We all want favor, unmerited gifts from God. And we are given favor because of God’s crazy, overwhelming love. This is why we have eternal life through Jesus. This is why we are filled with the Holy Spirit. This is why we get to live lives that are full of God’s abundant goodness and not just filled with the things of this world. 

God longs to give us so much more than what we can see and feel and know with our limited human strength. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). We experience this favor, this gift we can never earn, through God’s delight in us. You are delighted in. You are God’s delight.

Spend some time now meditating on the following verse: “The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing” (Zephaniah 3:17).

Read it once, and then read it aloud. Read it again, and then close your eyes and imagine the scene. What does it look like for God to rejoice over you with gladness? What does it look like for Him to quiet you with His love? What does it sound like for Him to exult over you with loud singing? Do you hear His voice? Do you see His dancing? Do you feel His smile, the sparkle in His eyes? His delight? Do you believe He, right now, delights in you?