His Good Pleasure

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE

HIS GOOD PLEASURE

Luke 10:21

21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. 

NIV

Although we looked at both the truths, the joy through the Holy Spirit, and all these things revealed to little children, we missed another truth. Hiding the truth from the wise and learned, but revealing those things to those who have changed and become like a little child, that is being simple and humble, is the Father’s good pleasure. All things in our lives are according to the Father’s good pleasure. All the blessings we experience are because it is the Father's good pleasure, or we could say God's. When it comes down to it, every breath we take is because of the good pleasure of our Father who is in heaven. This is why we hallow his name; we give honor and glory to our Father who is in heaven. We cannot thank him enough for giving us our daily bread. As we thought through this bread before, it certainly implies food, our daily sustenance, but it could also imply Jesus, for He is the bread from heaven. This is why we take the bread at communion. Jesus told us that it represents his body, so we consume Jesus daily. We also cannot thank the Father enough because he has forgiven our sins, but of course that is somewhat conditional on us forgiving everyone who has sinned against us. We also know and should be abundantly thankful to the Father for it is a good pleasure not to lead us toward evil, but he always delivers us from all the evil forces in this dark world and all the evil spiritual forces. All this is the Father's good pleasure. We cannot fully comprehend the love our Father has for us. He does so much for us because everything is based on his good pleasure. We live in the good pleasure of the Father. Let us not ever forget all we are, all we have, and all we are able to do is all due according to the good pleasure of our Father.