It must be something to look at something in development and acknowledge that it’s good.
Noting something like that hints at the ability to reflect, review and rate progress. Not only that, but if you’re going along and things are looking good there must be some sort of reaction connected with the good. A smile of satisfaction. The contented grin. The look of pleasure seeing the plan come together.
Whenever I read stage to stage God reflecting on the work and noting that it was good, I see the God who takes great joy in His creation. He does all things well and has every right to enjoy it.
Even after sin, there’s glimpses of the pleasure God takes in His creation. Even the man made in His image who rebelled and corrupted things is the recipient of the Father’s joy when repentance takes place. He takes great joy when that which is made for peace finds and settles in its place of wholeness.
This God who enjoys gives more of an idea of His preferred engagement with us. The God who enjoys certainly wants His creation to resound with that joy. There is a delight in the Father when we embrace His joy and thus become full of that joy.
This is reflected in the Son who spoke about desiring the disciples to embrace their place in Him and love each other with His love so that their joy may be complete.
Tragic though the quests are for cheap and fleeting thrills, these likewise betray the heart hungry for deep, meaningful joy. A life of dreary boredom is no life at all. A life full of the joy of the Lord can never be anything less than one with the insight that current challenges are nothing in comparison to the power that lives inside and the hope that is ahead.
That joy is something available to anyone prepared to see the good in God’s creation as the indicator to the God Who Enjoys. Knowing that the work He starts is one where at each stage He can say it’s good – even when it looks nothing like it, because seeing the end from the beginning He knows the end result will be very good.
That’s good news worth enjoying.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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