OUR DAILY BREAD. : OUR SINGING FATHER
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:44 pmMONDAY OCTOBER 8, 2018
OUR SINGING FATHER
READ:
Zaphaniah 3:14-20
THE BIBLE in ONE YEAR
ISAIAH 30-31 and PHILIPPIANS 4
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The LORD your God
is with you, the
Mighty Warrior
who saves. He will
take great delight
in you; in his love
he will...rejoice
over you with
singing. Zephaniah 3:17
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No one told me before my wife and I had children how important singing would be. My children are now six, eight, and ten. But all three had problems sleeping early on. Each night, my wife and I took turns rocking our little ones, praying they'd nod off quickly. I spent hundreds of hours rocking them, desperately crooning lullabies to (hopefully!) speed up the process. but as I sang over our children night after night, something amazing happened: It deepened my bond of love and delight for them in ways I had never dreamed.
Did you know Scripture describes our Heavenly Father singing over His children too? Just as I sought to soothe my children with song, so Zephaniah concludes with a portrait of our Heavenly Father singing over His people: "He will take great delight in you; in his love he will...rojoice over you with singing" (3:17).
Much of Zephaniah's prophetic book warns of a coming time of judgment for those who'd rejected God. Yet that's not where it ends. Zephaniah concludes not with judgment but with a description of God not only rescuing His people from all their suffering (vv.19-20) but also tenderly loving and rejoicing over them with song (v.17).
Our God is not only a Mighty Warrior who saves" and restores (v.17) but a loving Father who tenderly sings songs of love over us.
**Father, help us to embrace Your tender love and "hear" the songs You sing.
_______________________________________________________________________
Our Heavenly Father delights in His children like a parent
singing to a newborn baby.
OUR SINGING FATHER
READ:
Zaphaniah 3:14-20
THE BIBLE in ONE YEAR
ISAIAH 30-31 and PHILIPPIANS 4
__________________________________________________________
The LORD your God
is with you, the
Mighty Warrior
who saves. He will
take great delight
in you; in his love
he will...rejoice
over you with
singing. Zephaniah 3:17
___________________________________________________________
No one told me before my wife and I had children how important singing would be. My children are now six, eight, and ten. But all three had problems sleeping early on. Each night, my wife and I took turns rocking our little ones, praying they'd nod off quickly. I spent hundreds of hours rocking them, desperately crooning lullabies to (hopefully!) speed up the process. but as I sang over our children night after night, something amazing happened: It deepened my bond of love and delight for them in ways I had never dreamed.
Did you know Scripture describes our Heavenly Father singing over His children too? Just as I sought to soothe my children with song, so Zephaniah concludes with a portrait of our Heavenly Father singing over His people: "He will take great delight in you; in his love he will...rojoice over you with singing" (3:17).
Much of Zephaniah's prophetic book warns of a coming time of judgment for those who'd rejected God. Yet that's not where it ends. Zephaniah concludes not with judgment but with a description of God not only rescuing His people from all their suffering (vv.19-20) but also tenderly loving and rejoicing over them with song (v.17).
Our God is not only a Mighty Warrior who saves" and restores (v.17) but a loving Father who tenderly sings songs of love over us.
**Father, help us to embrace Your tender love and "hear" the songs You sing.
_______________________________________________________________________
Our Heavenly Father delights in His children like a parent
singing to a newborn baby.
