The LORD will once again rejoice to see you do well.

 

Monday, January 1, 2024


Psalm 113

Deuteronomy 30:6-20

Colossians 3:12-17


Observance: The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus


The LORD will once again rejoice to see you do well.


God has done great things for us – amen and amen! And so we rejoice in Him. He has put a song in our hearts and a spring in our step. The love of God the Holy Spirit has been poured into us and overflows out into our thoughts, deeds and meditations. Rejoice always – and again, I say rejoice!


Such joy that the people of God know (a joy that is as natural as breathing) comes out the wellspring of the life of Jesus. Jesus gives us this never-ending and never-failing stream of abundant life, the permanence of which gives us peace, and the truth of which gives us joy.


But what a scandalous thing to suggest that God also rejoices in us. God, above the earth and the heavens, looking upon us as mere creatures with the shortest of spans, here one day, gone the next – this God rejoices in His people.


What is this circle of joy in which we have found ourselves? God loves us and has saved us, and so we are joyful. We then obey God and rejoice in Him in return – and this gives God joy. Seeing God’s joyous expression on our endeavours fills us back up with joy, and so on, world without end, amen.


The time of the Hebrews in the wilderness is over. The silence of the prophets was ended with John the Baptist, who ended his own ministry with the advent of the Messiah. This Messiah is now seated at the right hand of God the Father, bringing to Him our needs, weeping with us in our sorrows, and dancing with us in our joy. The Holy Spirit is here with us, helping us overcome all kinds of evil and demons, and as we succeed, God is joyful. This is the world in which the Christian lives. A world where God rejoices to see us do well.

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