Objects of His Delight

God enjoys His creation.  The apostle John says frankly that God’s purpose in creation was his own pleasure.  God is happy in His love for all that He has made.  

 

We cannot miss the feeling of pleasure in God’s delighted references to his handiwork.  Psalm 104 is a divinely inspired nature poem almost rhapsodic in its happiness, and the delight of God is felt throughout it.  “May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in His works”  Psalm 104:31).

The Lord takes peculiar pleasure in His saints.  Many think of God as far removed, gloomy and mightily displeased with everything, gazing down in a mood of fixed apathy upon a world in which He has long ago lost interest; but this is to think erroneously.  True, God hates sin and can never look with pleasure upon iniquity, but where men seek to do God’s will, He responds in genuine affection.  Christ in His atonement has removed the bar to the divine fellowship.  Now in Christ all believing souls are objects of God’s delight.

(By:  A.W. Tozer)