God reveals: we are God's delight!

WORD 2day: Saturday after Epiphany

January 11, 2025 - 1 John 5: 14-21; John 3: 20-33

We are already at the threshold of the feast of Baptism... we have been preparing towards it, rather the Word has been preparing us towards this feast and today comes the peak of the revelations that God has made to us - that God delights in us. This message, we will soon be hearing in the occasion of the feast. 

This has three implications, as in the plain sight from the Word today. The first implication is that we belong to God. Our baptism, as the celebration of the feast of baptism of the Lord will son remind us, is fundamentally an essential transformation of our selves, as children who belong to God. That grants us numerous and bonteous favours - including the fact that whatever we ask, we shall receive in the merciful will of God. 

The second implication is that when we belong to God, the Lord delights in us and the delight of the Lord although it is not merited, can be lost if we decide to turn our backs to the Lord. That is our choice, and it is part of the implications of rejoicing in the fact that God delights in us. 

The third implication is that we are called to do all that we can to make God present wherever we are, if we are truly children of this God who delights in us. Not only that God delights in usm but the presence of God brings us joy, and that completes the joy that we can ever imagine in our own limited ways. 

Being children of God is a privilege given to us, and that God delights in us is the greatest source of joy that we can have. Let us prepare ourselves to celebrate this great feast of the year!