Reasons God Celebrates Us

UV 1018-10,000 Giving God Reasons to Celebrate Us The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. Zephaniah 3 v 17 God does not need to repent for He does no wrong and can do no wrong. But scripture records that in the days of Noah, when sin abounded and Noah was about the only righteous person on the earth, the Lord repented or regretted His decision to create man. Instead, we must give reasons in this day and age for His Father heart to rejoice in us, His creation. When we remain faithful and committed to Him, He celebrates us every day and every moment of our lives. He celebrates our achievements to announce His greatness. He celebrates our victory over sin, weakness, temptation, trials and tribulations. He celebrates the personal qualities of each one of us. Just as Jacob enumerated the personal qualities of each of his twelve sons and pronounced His blessings, the Lord knows the personal qualities of each one of us and pronounces His blessings. He dances and sings around us and on account of us. The word “sing” interestingly is a combination of “sin” and the letter “G” that stands for God helping us overcome our misery and thereby rejoice in our hearts. A song after all is the reflex of a joyful heart. Our earthly parents rejoice in their offsprings’ success. Similarly, the Lord rejoices over us. Our earthly parents lament over us when we fail their expectations. Similarly, the Lord laments over us. The Lord also finds joy in us as a young man delights in his bride. Just as a child rests in her mother’s arms and is lulled into sleep by her singing, we can rest in the arms of the Lord. He cradles our heads on His right hand and wraps His left hand around us. We can lie still in the assurance that God is mighty and He can and does save us. He knows our every need and fulfils it. Scripture says that He will beautify us with His salvation. He delights in those who fear Him and walk in faith. He prospers us in every work of the hand, the fruit of the body, the fruit of the land and the fruit of the cattle. Yet human experience is that when the going is good, people tend to move away from God and when the going gets tough, we move closer to Him. The Israelites had to be enslaved in Egypt and delivered through the mighty right hand of God manifesting in the leadership of Moses. God had to show Himself mighty in their midst and yet they proved fickle and complained against Moses and the Lord. The Lord does not take pleasure in the pain we undergo but history is replete with examples of people who moved away from God when the times were good. They shifted their faith from the invisible but mighty and loving God to visible things. The Lord found that only pain and affliction could wean us from the world and cure us of our infidelity. Often the Lord needs to put a hook in our nose and a bit and bridle on us in order to make us go in the proper direction. Prateep v Philip