{"id":6018,"date":"2018-04-29T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2018-04-29T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:50:17","slug":"delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6018","title":{"rendered":"Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delight.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delight-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delight-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to like someone who doesn&#8217;t return the favor.  In order to rejoice in the Lord, it helps to know that He also rejoices in us.  More than just rejoicing, He <em>delights<\/em> in us.  <em>Delight<\/em> is a good, honest word that circumvents any phony spiritualizing of the word <em>rejoice<\/em>.  If we rejoice in the Lord for theological reasons rather than with frank warm-heartedness, we&#8217;ll presume that He&#8217;s the same way &#8212; rejoicing in His people out of covenantal obligation, while in His heart barely able to tolerate our waywardness.  How absurd!  When the Bible says &#8220;The Lord takes delight in his people,&#8221; we should picture a big, sloppy smile on God&#8217;s face and fireworks going off around His throne &#8212; all for you and me!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 61<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: South Riding, Virginia, April 29, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to like someone who doesn&#8217;t return the favor. In order to rejoice in the Lord, it helps to know that He also rejoices in us. More than just rejoicing, He delights in us. Delight is a good, honest word that circumvents any phony spiritualizing of the word rejoice. If we rejoice in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-god","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}