Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in
God! (Philippians 4:4a)
Some of you are aware that I'm going through a rough
time these days with my job and with my parents. The
combination of the two has left me feeling overly
vulnerable, emotional, and quite overwhelmed.
Today, I reread the above verse from this coming
Sunday's NT reading. I looked up the word revel. I
mean, I know what it means contextually, I use the
word, but I wondered just what does it mean to revel
in God? Party Hearty in God? Well, yes, I suppose
that, too.
But if I plug the Mirriam Webster definition into that
verse it reads:
Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, take intense
pleasure or satisfaction in God!
Isn't that a great concept?! All day, every day, take
intense pleasure and satisfaction in God!
What a great way to embrace the day... what a great
way to put the worries and the stress and the
pressures of hard jobs, illness, death, or problematic
homelifes to the side, to turn them over to the God
who is so present that we can take intense pleasure
and satisfaction in that Presence!
For me, to take that degree of pleasure and
satisfaction in God, I see myself enraptured, standing
emotionally naked before my Creator, bathed in the
warm... hot even... light of God's enduring love, a
love so powerful, a love so intense, nothing, NOTHING,
can overcome it. A love so powerful that not even the
grave or death itself could even put a damper on it.
Wow, God! Thank you!
