Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his
inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
DELIGHT
I can be relied upon to do those things that delight me.
I finish reading a good book, without being forced to turn the pages. I ride my zero-turn-radius mower, not merely because, ‘it is time.’ I laugh at the jokes of my grandchildren, whether they are funny or not.
I delight in those things, and so I do them. And you would be silly to doubt me in those things… to suspect I was not doing them… to be unsure that the book was REALLY being read, the lawn REALLY was being mowed, and the jokes REALLY were being enjoyed.
Yet we doubt God’s forgiveness.
Even though He DELIGHTS in loving.
We hold fast to our past sins. We berate ourselves on sin-anniversaries, or when memories crop up. We act like Eeyore during Communion, or Charlie Brown as we walk into church.
And when we do those things we are foolish.
God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit DELIGHTS to give us forgiveness.
Bask in His delight.