Verse of the day: I will rejoice in them and do them good (Jeremiah 32. 41).
The pleasure that God has in his saints is a source of joy for the believer. We cannot see in ourselves any reason for God to be pleased with us. We cannot find pleasure in ourselves, because we often have to complain, because we are overwhelmed and aware of our sin and regret our infidelity. We feel that God’s people cannot rejoice much in us, because they perceive our many imperfections and lament our weaknesses, instead of admiring our virtues. However, we like to meditate at length on this transcendent truth, this glorious mystery. As the husband rejoices in his wife, so the Lord Jesus rejoices in us. Nowhere in Scripture do we read that God rejoices in cloud-covered mountains or shining stars. But we read that he rejoices in his habitable world and delights in the sons of men (see Proverbs 8:31). We do not find written in the Bible that the angels themselves make you happy. It is not like the cherub and the seraph who say, “Are they going to call you My-Delight?” Why is the Lord pleased with you? (Isaiah 62. 4). Yet God affirms all this to poor fallen creatures like us, degraded and depraved by sin, but saved, exalted, and glorified by His grace. He expresses his joy in his town, using strong language. Who could have imagined the Lord as a song? But it is written: “He will rejoice over you with joy; he will renew you in his love; Will he rejoice in you with joy? (Zephaniah 3:17). Looking at the world he created, God said, “It is very good. ” However, when contemplating those who have been bought by the blood of Jesus, his own chosen ones, it seems that the immense heart of the Infinite can no longer be repressed, overflowing with a divine exclamation of rejoicing. Our gratitude response should be: “I rejoice in the Lord, I rejoice in the God of my salvation. ” (Habakkuk 3. 18)?