Zephaniah 3:17 (KJV) Imagine the Lord, the one and only God of the universe singing over you? Our text today is straightforward and personal, The Lord – the one in charge of all is your God – personal and with us at all times. God sings over us with all His heart and passion. 1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us. Psalm 57:3 He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. This Scripture shows a God who is God but has joy and deep happy emotions when He thinks of us His children. What a great verse! John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. His consuming heart’s desire is to hold us in His arms of love. Here, it is hinted that the creator God and covenant Lord would enter into humanity, through David’s lineage, in order to accomplish redemption. God sings. “The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17. Genesis 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. If Scripture didn’t say it, I wouldn’t either. (NKJV) The Hebrew word for “singing” actually means “a ringing cry” with a sense of joy. - God sings over you c. He will rejoice over you with gladness: We often underestimate the joy God has in His people, and too often think God is annoyed or irritated with us… He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Jesus sings. This is something quite hard to take in, but when we do we will experience the joy that surpasses human understanding. The following is taken from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon titled “A Sermon for the Time Present,” delivered October 30th, 1887. That is a good picture of God’s joy in saving us. In four places in Scripture we read that Jesus, the Son of God himself, raised his voice in worship.1 Which is immediately confusing on one level… Psalms 115:15 - Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. I do picture him as singing over us as a small child but this song is also joyful because of the victory in spiritual warfare accomplished by this child by faith in this living loving God! This has been done in Christ Jesus, who sings over us and leads us in singing songs of praise to our Father in heaven. 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