GOD CREATED YOU FOR HIS PLEASURE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY OCTOBER 31, 2023.

SUBJECT : GOD CREATED YOU FOR HIS PLEASURE!

Memory verse: "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created." (Revelation 4 vs 11.)

READ: Ephesians 1 vs 5 - 6 says:

1:5; Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the pleasure of His will, 

1:6: to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

INTIMATION:

Pleasure is the gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying as opposed to pain, sorrow etc. God created you for His pleasure. It pleased Him when He made you in His image and after His likeness. 

All creatures in heaven and earth will worship and honor God because He is the Creator and Sustainer of everything. Our God is a God of pleasure, and you were planned for His pleasure. The moment you were born into the world, God was there as an unseen witness, smiling at your birth. He planned it all because He does His pleasure (Isaiah 46 vs 10). God created you for a reason; for His purpose, His delight, His glory, and for His benefits.

Living for God's pleasure, and bringing joy to Him, is the first purpose of your life. All the things the God did, and does is perfect, therefore creating you for His pleasure is perfect, and when you fully understand this truth, you will never feel insignificant, as you now know your worth. 

He created you to be like Himself, because of your importance to Him. And if you are that important to God, and He considers you valuable enough to share eternity with Him, then what greater significance could you have? You are a child of God, and you bring pleasure to God like nothing else He has ever created.

It is clear to you that God delights in you and takes pleasure in you. He wants you to reciprocate His good gesture by also delighting in Him. The psalmist in Psalm 37 vs 4 says, "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

We are called to delight ourselves in the Lord and to commit everything we have and do (our ways) to Him. 

But how do we do that? To delight in someone means experience great pleasure and joy in his or her presence. This happens only when we know Him better. Knowledge of God's great love for us will indeed give us delight.

To commit ourselves to the Lord means entrusting everything—our lives, families, jobs, possessions and so on—to His control and guidance. To commit ourselves to the Lord means trust in Him, believing that He can care for us better than we can ourselves. We should be willing to wait for Him to work out what is best for us. When you delight yourself in the Lord, you rest assured that the desires of heart will be granted to you. 

In the passage we read today, the word "predestined" means marked out beforehand. It was God's will that you are His child, made in His own image and after His likeness, and it is pleasurable to Him. Therefore, He also gave you the gift of enjoying pleasure, and this is one of the greatest gifts He has given you, hence He wired you with five senses and emotions so you can experience it. He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it. "The Lord takes pleasure in His people" (Psalm 149 vs 4). It is for His pleasure in us He did all He did through Jesus Christ for us. 

God wants His attribute expressed in us, hence His creating us in His image, and after His likeness. God has emotions, too. He feels things deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves (Genesis 6 vs 6), gets jealous (Exodus 20 vs 5), and angry (Judges 2 vs 20), and feels compassion, pity (Psalm 103 vs 13), sorrow, and sympathy (Deuteronomy 32 vs 36) as well as happiness (Ezekiel 5 vs 13), gladness, (First Chronicles 16 vs 27), and satisfaction. God loves (First John 4 vs 16), delights (Psalm 18 vs 19), gets pleasure (Psalm 35 vs 27), rejoices (Psalm 104 vs 31), enjoys, and even laughs! (Psalm 2 vs 4.)

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the privilege of sonship, and Your exceeding and unparalleled love for me. Give me the grace to lead a life that will give You pleasure at all times, that I may also have pleasure in You, in the mighty Name of Jesus I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!