Brooke
Field Personnel in Waco, Texas
“He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. He will rejoice over you with singing.” – Zephaniah 3:17
My mom is a singer. She’s been a music minister since the 1990s, a time when only a handful of women served as Baptist music ministers in Texas. Our home was always filled with singing, and maybe that’s why I love this verse so much. I love my mom’s singing, and I love what it represents. My mom worships our Lord through singing.
To rejoice is to feel or show great joy and delight. I cherish the image of God delighting in me through singing. What will that be like, one day, when God Himself sings over me? I know the joy I see on my mom’s face when she sings. How much more joy will there be when the Lord sings over me?
“He will quiet you with His love.”
My life is anything but quiet right now. With two teenagers in the house, there’s rarely a dull moment. But I crave quiet. I crave silence. I long for stillness when the weight of the day starts piling up. God can give me that peace. He can give you that peace. He can calm and quiet us with His love, if we let Him. I need that reminder. I need to let God quiet my heart with His love.
To be quieted by God’s love means to rest in His presence, comfort and peace, even in the middle of chaos. It reminds me of a mother cradling her newborn, gently soothing him as he cries. Imagine the love on that mother’s face as she quiets her child. How much greater is the love of our Heavenly Father as He quiets us?
As we move through our days, let’s remember this beautiful truth: God rejoices over us, and He quiets us with His love.