Zephaniah 3:17 For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love He will calm your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.
Beautiful verse. Last night at lunch I was reading "1000 Gifts" and had the most wonderful God visit. I had just lost my temper (again) at work, and of course was feeling quite down on myself, feeling like such a hypocrite and failure as a Christian....gee something different for me!! LOL
Author Ann described her experience of flying over Greenland and how when she saw the sun rising over the earth at 40,000 feet she understood it and saw it for what it was....God singing over the earth with joy, singing over her a joyful song. She penned, "He sings love!" Ann went on to quote CS Lewis--"the most fundamental thing is not how we think of God but rather what God thinks of us; How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important."
Wow. God sings love. Now, rewind back to my temper loss, and my downcast, self hating, self rejecting feelings....how I felt about me. And God sings love!
The verse says that His love calms my fears. What are my fears? I am never good enough. God can't ever ever possibly be pleased with me. I know He loves me, but that is because of who He is, not because I am actually worthy or lovable. I must always be such a disappointment to God......(ever notice how we use the nevers, evers and always when it comes to describing negatives of our selves or our lives? hmmmmmm, something to think about.)
But God sings love. His love is the balm to soothe my fears, all my fears, all these specific fears. My anger...His love is there. My failure....His love is there. He is there, singing songs of love over me.
Do I believe that His love is bigger than my fears, my failures? Yes. The question is can I accept this. And that is the hard part, for me at least. I can't seem to get past my own unworthiness to His great love. What shows more of God's love than the Cross? That His love is so great that He died for me...and for you. His desire for our, fellowship, mine and yours, was so great, so intense, that He lived sinlessly, died shamefully, and rose victoriously to restore us to Himself.
You are precious to me, you are honored and I love you. Isaiah 43:4
Thank for this overwhelming, all consuming, joyful love. Open our ears to hear Your love song Lord. I want to sing along!!
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