"Isn't it great to step back from a project well completed and just enjoy the joy. You've seen the happiness in the child's face whose crayon masterpiece gets taped to the fridge. It's the same contentment and joy you feel after receiving "great job" on the top of your history exam. Plus the pleasure doesn't stop with one glance. We keep returning to admire the wooden bench just finished or the counted cross stitch that took 150 hours to complete.
Now imagine the pleasure God derives from everything he has made. What do you think surged through him the minute after 1 billion galaxies burst into being? With typical understatement, the Bible tells us,"God saw that it was good. After standing back to take into in the panorama, God rested. Not to catch his breath from exhaustion, but to savor the moment and relish in the pleasure of what he created.
Think of what surges through God's heart when you - His epitome of creation - make it your ambition to be pleasing to him, aspiring to fulfill all His greatest desires for you. God may say of his inanimate creation "it is good", but when he is creating in you -"Christ in you, the hope of glory" now that is great!
God excels in the art of understatement. To say of his incredible work in creating the universe "it is good" - employs a style that is restrained, to say the least. This means we can be assured that when we please him, we really please Him, with a joy that is humanly indescribable.
Joni's prayer for today
"I am awestruck to think that I can do something, anything, that brings you enormous pleasure and joy. What a privilege to play a part in giving you, the Lord of the universe, great pleasure."
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