The reddish sunburnt skin with deep wrinkled face, hands with thick knuckles, and feet covered with dusts seem showing a life of this old Bedouin man who has lived in the desert. What does make him laugh an innocent laugh though he must have gone through various hardships in his lifetime, like the desert with a temperature that goes extremely hot and cold?While his grandson, who is too young to even sitting up, is lying down and doing nothing, he just cannot stop laughing as if He cannot even recall what he has gone through in his lifetime.

Just like this man, there is God who looks at us and takes great delight in us and rejoices over us with singing. It is not based on we have any successness, accomplishment, or achievement But, rather we hate Him and stand against Him turn away from Him and even we are not able to respond to Him since weare too corrupted because of our sinful nature. Neverthless, God had passed over all the things we have done and His song of love has become our salvation and life.

The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17, NIV) [GNPNEWS]