I was scrolling social media recently and came across this reel of a nun expressing how God takes a tremendous amount of delight in offering his grace to others.  She used the phrase “It is His delight to rescue you.”  This verbiage struck me both convicting and freeing.  It is His delight to rescue you.  When you are deep in the struggle, when you are filled with anxiety, when you have dug yourself a hole so deep that it feels like the darkness is closing in on you, it is His DELIGHT to rescue you.  It gives me a picture of God the father, a smile shinning on His face, a twinkle✨ in His eye, not frustrated or irritated with you for the mess you have created but more so playfully chuckling at your attempt.  He delights in your try and He delights in his rescuing of you.

This visual deeply impacted my heart.  I have such high standards for myself and sometimes those impossible standards can bleed onto others in my life.  It is not something I am super proud of.  But what a relief it is to hear that Jesus wants to rescue me  – and he doesn’t do it begrudgingly.  He does it with joy and delight.  The dictionary definition of  delight is to be exceedingly pleased.  God is exceedingly pleased to rescue you.  Of course God despises sin, but His love for you is so overwhelmingly great that He is exceedingly pleased to rescue you.  

Another definition of delight is a high degree of gratification or pleasure.  It is His pleasure to rescue you.  It is his greatest gratification to rescue you.  This was the purpose of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus: to rescue you!  

So how does it look when we don’t live from this place?  It looks like anxiety, it looks like fear, it looks like all the ways we act out of these emotions.  It looks like being stuck without hope.  It stresses me out just listing these things out on my computer.  Let’s just all agree to find ourselves in the peaceful place of surrender to His delight, instead. 

My hope with this blog is that you are encouraged and get a glimpse into how valuable we are to Jesus.  My prayer is that today you feel God’s delight all over you.