We began this series noting how burdensome it can become to do good for the helpless, and how even the ones we help come to grieve that they are burdens to us.
But God delights in His goodness and salvation for His people, because He delights in us! Our Lord Jesus' describes God's delight as extraordinary, and there is no sense in which the Lord regrets doing us good, or grows bitter or weary at the cries of His sons that He loves. He will pile His grace and mercy and goodness upon us without limit for all eternity, because He delights in us!
How then, should we respond to God's goodness to us? Should our joy be tamped down or moderated in any way because we are a burden to Christ?
If those people in Scripture who rejoiced in God's salvation did so without any dilution or regret at all, ought not we also?
If God never treats us as burdens, but always delights in saving us, how can we justify mourning about our being burdens to him?
Quite frankly, God directly commands us to rejoice in His goodness! The prophet Zechariah records God's command that His people rejoice greatly with shouting over the coming of Messiah! He comes as our King, and brings righteousness and salvation with Him for us. Nevertheless, He is lowly and kind and tenderhearted towards His people!
Peter's great song cries out, that though we haven't seen Jesus, yet we love Him, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving salvation from Him!
Hebrews urges us to hold fast our faith, confidence, and rejoicing in Christ as our Savior.
Paul repeatedly exhorts us to rejoice in God's goodness forever. We are not to rejoice in the works of the flesh, but in Christ Jesus!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
