Ps. 149:4- For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation.
Why would the Lord delight in us? What is it about us that would cause Him Pleasure? Is there anything in us of our own, which he can take pleasure or delight in? No! It is not for our sake, but for his own sake; for his name's sake, that he takes delight in us. When the Lord sees us, He sees His own eternal plan being brought forth in us. The Lord has purchased us with His blood, renewed us by His Spirit, and redeemed us by His own power. We are to be brought forth to the maturity of Christ and thus be the image of Christ. When He looks at us, He sees reflections of His own image. The work that He is doing in us brings glory and honor to His name. So it is not our own lives that brings the pleasure to Him, but we are simply but the crown of His redemptive and sanctifying eternal plan. When the Father sees us, He sees the fruit of His Sons suffering, and the fulfilment of His redemptive nature.
We also bring delight to His heart because we are simply responding to what He has already done for us. It is even His own handiwork, by the Spirit of God that enables us to exercise the faith to respond. We trust His Words, we rely on His salvation, we put our hope and confidence in Him. The pleasure is out of our benefiting from His own work. Even our feeble attempts to please Him is our effort in response to the Love that He has enable us to feel for Him. We are God's handwork, we are reflections of His eternal plan and the "delight" that He has for us is the glory of His nature that He sees in us.
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