January 19
“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” (Zeph. 3:17).
You have seen human beings looking happy and joyful, but have you ever seen God looking
happy? None of us can dream how our creator looks when He is joyful. Yet it is true that God
rejoices. “The Lord thy God… will rejoice over thee, He will joy over thee with singing.”
Suppose you could hear the Lord Himself singing! How would you feel if you could hear your
loving and living Lord singing over you? After He has loved you, saved you and poured His
love into your heart. He will begin to sing for joy over you. Watch a mother with a new-born
babe. She is so full of Love for the little one, hugging and kissing it all over. Her face lights
up with joy, and her song is sweet as she pours her love into her baby’s heart. God too will
sing over us like this when we are newly born again and ready to receive His Love. Then you
will hear Him singing a song far sweeter than any angel’s song. Such is the joy of the Lord.
Such is the joy that fills us with divine strength.
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Our relationship to God
Jan 19
Happy is he … whose hope is in the Lord his God.
—Psalm 146:5
Happy is the man who has learned the secret of coming to God in daily prayer. Fifteen minutes alone with God every morning before you start the day can change circumstances and remove mountains! But all of this happiness and all of these unlimited benefits which flow from the storehouse of heaven are contingent upon our relationship to God. Absolute dependency and absolute yieldedness are the conditions of being His child. Only His children are entitled to receive those things that lend themselves to happiness; and in order to be His child, there must be the surrender of the will to Him. Man does not come to know God through works—he comes to know God by faith, through grace. You cannot work your way toward happiness and heaven, you cannot moralize your way, you cannot reform your way, you cannot buy your way. It comes as a gift of God through Christ.