THE FATHERS IN WHOM GOD DELIGHTED - PART 1

FRIDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2025

If you're preparing to host an occasion full of godly celebration and you say to the Lord, "Let me know if you are well pleased with my coordination of taskful activities involved," you are definitely asking the Lord to grant you a confirmation that He has delighted in your preparation and that He's joyful to see you proceed with your area of responsibility, while He perfects or takes care of the rest. Are you with me?

The Lord's "delight" in you refers to His hearty "gratifying" responsibility towards the entirety of your goodly endeavours, as well as your all-inclusive wellbeing, on account of His covenant-based pleasing alliance with your spiritual forefathers that eventually led to the saints being the seed of Abraham in Christ. What you always need is to track and inquire of what is happening in God's mind per time regarding His delightful harmonical expressions for you in Christ, so you can regularly establish His continual report in your belief system.

The "daily progress" indicator of God's mind is ascertained by prayerfully abiding in His presence oftentimes and blending with His Word cogitatively, because there are deeply-coded revelation of such intensity of eternal love still undisclosed to the recreated human spirit. More below!

Reference: Deuteronomy 10:15 New King James Version (NKJV)

"The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day."

Is there is any good news from the Lord? Yes, the LORD delighted only in our fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, the saints - above all peoples, as it is this day. Praise God!

In a nutshell, there was serious AGAPE relationship being nurtured between God and our fathers, and from God's side of communication, He lavished His fonding tenderness on them. The NIV reads, "The Lord set His affection on our ancestors and loved them, and He chose us, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today" while the NLT reads, "Yet the LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of His love. And He chose us, their descendants, above all other nations, as is evident today." So the love of God is patently evident in the versified statement, which meant that He was operating in their favour, a solid profitable knowledge to be CONSTANTLY considered as an essential recognition in our walk with God.

When it is Biblically verifiable that Supreme Deity chose your forefathers as the object of His love, you may want to find out how your ancestors responded to God's love. Therefore, we are going to consider the perspective or behavioural sensibility of the fathers being addressed. But before that, you may also want to know why God directed His relational love towards them in a maximal sense? Deuteronomy 7:6-9 has the answer:

"For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession. The Lord did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors that He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments" (NIV).

Our fathers were the true satisfaction of God's good pleasure, and today, we, the God-fearing saints, are His daily focus in heaven, and therefore, with utmost assurance, we are currently put on view as the object of His unconditional love in Christ Jesus. Stay tuned for the successive parts of this wonderful topic. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Psalm 18:16-19: Psalm 147:11; Psalm 149:4; Zephaniah 3:17. 

Exuberant Declaration:

The Almighty God has set His affection and full attention on me as His chosen generation, His royal priesthood, His holy nation and His peculiar person, so that I should always show forth His praises, having called me out of darkness into His marvellous light. Glory to God!