The singing God

Zephaniah 3:17 "For the Lord your God is living among you, He is a might savior.  He will take delight in you with gladness.  With his love, he will calm all your fears.   He will rejoice over you with joyful songs."

When we look at the Old Testament it seems easy to look through its pages and pick out the times when God pours His wrath on the wicked people.    We tend to see the Old Testament as a time of God's anger, and the New Testament as that of God's grace and mercy.   But nothing could be further from the truth, as we can see in these few verses in Zephaniah.   

God gives hope to His people who have been in exile, exile brought onto themselves.   God restores his people, and we have one of the most beautiful passages in scriptures, and yet one that is hidden in a little book called Zephaniah. 

"With His love, he will calm all your fears.

He will rejoice over you with joyful songs."

Not only is God willing to take back His people after they have fallen away from him, but He gathers them with His love -- and He sings to them.

God is a singer!   God is a song maker, a singer to the lost, and those that feel far away.   How amazing this is.  We are not the only ones singing praise to God, but He sings joyful songs to us.

Somehow this has been lost in my thinking (or it has never come up before in my mind in the first place), and when we realize that we are a product of the likeness of God, then how could we not think that God sings, and that he sings joyful songs to us?

What a great image.    May we continue to dive into the word and come closer to the singer of our souls, the maker of songs!!