Celebrate with Joy

To come to Jesus is to come to a joyful celebration! Jesus said the invitation to come into His kingdom is like being invited to a wedding banquet. He’s calling us into fellowship with a God who is exceedingly joyful.

I told a Vietnamese woman that our God is a happy God. She stopped what she was doing and looked at me. “What religion did you say that is?”

Christianity is the only religion that has a happy God continually desiring to do us good. Other religions envision their gods as angry and always in need of appeasing. But think of this! We have a God who is singing over His people with joy.

Zephaniah wrote, “The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing” (3:17). The word rejoice in the original language means to spin around with joy under the influence of violent emotion, and God is doing this while singing over us!

Using Strong’s concordance, we could translate that verse like this: “The Lord your God is powerful; he will save and deliver you, he will shine forth over you with great glee, he will be silent in his great love for you, he will spin around in violent emotion over you with triumphant shouts of great joy!”

God loves us continually with great emotion. Armed with the confidence of a mighty God who loves us enough to sing over us and who is with us, we can go forward into the future with joy.

Dear Father, thank You for singing over me. I am strengthened knowing that You express Your love for me with great exuberance. Help me to respond to such love with joyful abandonment.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son” (Matthew 22:2).