What Makes God Happy?

Jeremiah 32:40-41
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. 41 I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land.

We all have expectations toward something, whether it is how we expect a situation will pan out or what we expect from a particular individual. What do you think God wants of us?

Some people look at him scornfully, thinking he is just waiting for people to mess up. Others think he is wonderful without truly meaning it. The bible tells us that God will rejoice over us to do good. It satisfies God to do this. He is cheering you on...he's on your side!

Praying helps if you have trouble with understanding this. Pray that God will reveal himself in a clearer way. Also, get a good group of friends to support you.

I know I've mentioned praying in several posts. In the near future, I will have a series of prayer topics to help you in that area of your life.

What you have made me see," answered the Lady, "is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet it has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one's mind. Then, it may be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before - that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished, if it were possible to wish - you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other." ~C.S. Lewis