Our Daily Bread 8 October 2018 Devotional
Topic: Our Singing Father
Read: Zephaniah 3:14–20 | Bible in a Year: Isaiah 30–31; Philippians 4
Scripture: The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will . . . rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17
Message: No one told me before my wife and I had children how important singing would be. My children are now six, eight, and ten. But all three had problems sleeping early on. Each night, my wife and I took turns rocking our little ones, praying they’d nod off quickly. I spent hundreds of hours rocking them, desperately crooning lullabies to (hopefully!) speed up the process. But as I sang over our children night after night, something amazing happened: It deepened my bond of love and delight for them in ways I had never dreamed.
Our Daily Bread 8 October 2018 Devotional – Our Singing Father
Did you know Scripture describes our heavenly Father singing over His children too? Just as I sought to soothe my children with song, so Zephaniah concludes with a portrait of our heavenly Father singing over His people: “He will take great delight in you; in his love he will . . . rejoice over you with singing” (3:17).
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Much of Zephaniah’s prophetic book warns of a coming time of judgment for those who’d rejected God. Yet that’s not where it ends. Zephaniah concludes not with judgment but with a description of God not only rescuing His people from all their suffering (vv. 19–20) but also tenderly loving and rejoicing over them with song (v. 17).
Our Daily Bread 8 October 2018 Devotional – Our Singing Father
Our God is not only a “Mighty Warrior who saves” and restores (v. 17) but a loving Father who tenderly sings songs of love over us.
Prayer: Father, help us to embrace Your tender love and “hear” the songs You sing.
Thought for the Day: Our heavenly Father delights in His children like a parent singing to a newborn baby.
Our Daily Bread 8 October 2018 Devotional waswritten by Adam Holz (Our Daily Bread Ministries)