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You can’t *delight* in God’s gifts too much as long as you remain steadfast in the worship of the giver. Idolatry occurs not when we “delight” too much in God’s gifts, but when we become *devoted* to gifts as if they are the Giver. We worship the Giver & delight in what he gives!
Delighting in God’s gifts do not scandalize God, it testifies to his goodness. The more we delight in a gift the more we exalt the goodness of the Giver. When we deeply mourn the loss of a good gift we also testify to God’s goodness. We mourn cuz the gift was so amazingly good.
It’s a tragedy that Christians are taught to withhold their delight & withhold their mourning as if doing either robs God of glory. No, both glorify God. The problem isn’t with how much value we ascribe to a thing, the problem is when we give the throne of our hearts to a thing.
For example, So often I meet Christians who never truly mourn relational losses cuz they don’t want to come off as if they idolized said relationship. Yes, relationships can be idolized, but fruitful relationships are also ”good gifts”. Mourning testifies to the goodness it was.
If Christians grasped these realities we’d testify so well to the goodness of God. In our delights, the world would see people who can find joy & thankfulness in the most trivial of things & those who don’t mourn as w/o hope, but as those who’ve known the goodness of God’s gifts!
