How often do we roll out of bed feeling great? I don’t just mean physically (although that seems rarer and rarer the older I get). I mean spiritually and emotionally. It nearly always feels like waking up into a fog or with a weight on our chests of some kind. We are anxious about responsibility and stress. We feel low because of sins in our own lives or sins committed against us. We carry big questions that maybe we can’t even articulate (especially early in the morning), but we definitely feel the weight of them.
And while we so often wake up feeling lousy, we also wake up without a sense of how God feels about us. And that matters deeply because if we understand how God feels it will ease so many of our burdens and fears. Zephaniah 3:17 tells us:
The Lord your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
That’s how God feels about us. God is with us in power today. He rejoices over us and offers peace and healing. He takes joy in us as his people. So no matter how we feel this morning, we can be confident in how God feels about us, and that can change everything in our hearts.
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