When We Bless the Lord, He Delights in Our Amen

To bless Yahweh is to wish Him well and speak well of Him—not from obligation, but from genuine goodwill and a heart moved by His goodness toward us. God loves your good word about Him. He rejoices when you express your well-wishes toward His character and delights to hear your expressions of joy in His independent blessedness. Thomas Goodwin observed a profound mystery: Though Elohim possesses an infinite ocean of all blessedness—a fullness to which we can add nothing—He is called "The Blessed One" (ho makarios), a title solely proper and peculiar to Him alone.…