God’s Greatest Joy | What Makes God Happy?

🐰Easter usually brings thoughts of 🐰bunnies, 🐣eggs and tons of 🍭candy. There’s nothing like watching 👶🏻kids’ excitement as they find little 💵treasures out in the yard and explain with 😁delight what they found. For me, part of the joy of Easter is watching their faces 💡light up. But mostly, I enjoy Easter because I love to celebrate my freedom through Jesus.

Jesus took on a huge ⛓burden so that we could be set ✝️free. Luke 12:50 says, “I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished.” Sin had left a stain that no amount of sacrifices could 💦clean. To wash the stain away, Jesus took on our sin and it ☠️died with him on the cross. When he rose from the dead, we were made 🌈new through him.

“Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame.” The pain he experienced was worth what God was doing through him. He knew joy awaited the next chapter of his journey.

What was the 😁joy awaiting him? Other than sitting on the 👑throne beside his father (because that’s awesome!), the real 😁joy awaiting him was the 👥relationship he inherited with YOU! The joy he has is the time he gets with each of us. He’s happy because through his crucifixion, we were saved.

The 🙌pride and 😀joy parents feel for their 👶🏻children is nothing compared to how God feels about 😍us. Through Jesus we were made 💦clean and 💪whole so that we could live 🌈eternally with Him. God loves each of us so much that HE SENT HIS SON TO SAVE US! To save us! From the evil that had been done. From the choices that were made. He saved us because we are that valuable to Him.

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