“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.”
Zephaniah 3:17
As I meditate on this Word, I am brought to tears by the picture of your heart for me. I am reminded of how much I enjoy watching my own children. I love it when we are all together playing, laughing and singing old songs. As I sit in the midst of them, watching them with all their antics, my heart swells with a deep sense of joy and pleasure just being with them. I want to grab them up and press them into my very heart. As I meditate on this scripture in Zephaniah, I realize that YOU feel the same way about me. Oh my Father, I am humbled to tears at the picture of you loving me far more deeply than my limited human capacity…that you even rejoice over me singing! You are my best friend. You are always there for me, even when I am unaware. Lord, you are faithful to me even as I have been unfaithful to you.
Oh God… there is a longing inside me to know you more…and to experience your love in a greater way even tonight. I hunger for more. There is no greater goal than to know you Lord. How do I know you more? Your Word even says in Job 36:26,”Behold, God is great and we do not know Him…” Nothing that I have done in life has any value except to know YOU….teach me, Lord….Your servant is listening…
Oh, Lord God…Be my holy obsession…my burning desire…it is You I long for. How amazing to realize your heart is with me, constantly interceding to our Father on my behalf. How comforting it is to know that you are always there for me. I am humbled by the idea of you dancing and singing over me….that you even take joy in my life. You know all the days of my life….let me cling to your mercy and never take for granted your grace….Let my heart always maintain a song of worship to you the Holy One on high…all the days of my life. Let your fire consume the bondages of my life…Lord, the biggest bondage in my life is the bondage of self….Set me free. Let my life be a sweet fragrance to you, both day and night…let me walk with you during the days and visit me in my dreams at night. Keep my eyes on your beauty, Lord, and not on the circumstances I see around me each day. Oh Lord, the joy of knowing you…there is such a deep hunger in me for more….I sometimes feel like I am on the brink of something so much bigger….and I want to jump into the river and ride the swift current that takes me deeper into you …I don’t want to just splash in the shallows…I want to dive in the deep waters of your spirit….and there I am confident, I will find your love is more like an ocean…more than my human brain can fathom and more than my heart can contain. You are great God and I cannot understand it…Let flesh…that old bondage of self….drown in the depth of your love and mercy….Lord, let praises rise up in my soul…let that same mercy and love spill out when I am with others…Let the meditation of my heart and the song of love on my lips bring glory to you, my Jesus. Use me…allow me to be a polished arrow in your quiver…prepared at all times to be a precise instrument in our hands. I love you…my Father, my Brother, and my best Friend.
