It is here implied that the opposite kind of activity is congenial to
Him. The text declares judgment to be an anomaly, out of His ordinary
course of action and foreign to His nature.
We may pause for a moment on that great thought that God has a usual
course of action, which is usual because it is the spontaneous
expression and true mirror of His character. What He thus does shows
that character to His creatures, who cannot see Him but in the glass of
His works, and have to infer His nature, as they best may, from His
works. The Bible begins with His nature and thence interprets His work.
The work in which God delights is the utterance of His love in blessing.
The very essence of love is self-manifestation.
The very being of God is love, and all being delights in its own
self-manifestation, in its own activity.
How great the thought is that He is glad when we let Him satisfy His
nature by making us glad!
The ordinary course of His government in the world is blessing.