Dear Pastor,
I want you to know that God takes pleasure in your company. He rejoices over you with singing. God calls you the apple of His eye.
- God is pleased as you sacrifice for His glory.
- God is pleased as you cheerfully serve His people.
- God is pleased as you unashamedly declare His gospel.
Thank you for bringing God glory as you keep helping His people and faithfully tending His flock. Thank you for seeking the welfare of those around you and for following Christ’s example and emulating His attitude, taking the nature of a servant and becoming obedient even to death.
If you know of something in your life that God is displeased with, please confess it and repent of it immediately! Don’t let anything stand in the way of God’s will and good pleasure being revealed in your life.
It is almost impossible to comprehend that the God of the universe could be pleased with you and me. And yet He is: He is pleased when we humbly obey. He is pleased when we have faith and believe. He is pleased when we don’t grieve His Spirit but allow Him to have His way in us.
I pray that God’s words over you and me would be “This is my beloved (child) with whom I am well pleased”. I think that sounds a lot like “Well done good and faithful servant, enter into your master’s happiness”.
Christ is with us, Christ is in us!
Mike J
Pastor Michael Johnson 