The applause of mankind is released as something is spoken or performed in front of a group of people.
However, there are times we render applause, it’s designed to boost one’s confidence. Nevertheless, applause is an appropriate response to a job well done.
It’s an “attaboy,” only with the clapping of hands. When has there been a time when you were quick to celebrate another? The applause of man rendered or received is a pivot. When we applaud our fellow man, it shows how we can build up one another, excluding false-airs.
The Lord is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.
(Psalm 147: 11) God's applause, on the other hand, uses His creation to depict how He is pleased. It’s important to note, in order to experience His applause we must be holy, for He is holy. Also, having the Holy Ghost is essential and the only way to experience the blessed assurance of His applause.
An example of His applause is the leaves swaying on the trees. Imagine the swaying of the trees embracing you, all the while the other trees in the background aren’t moving.
One thing is for certain: He keeps rendering applause to show He is pleased. If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, that is how we see and hear God’s design.
Make no mistake, deep calls to deep. Sure, it seems foolish, and not only does God work in mysterious ways.
He is the Master at doing the foolish things to confound the wise. His timing to unveil His applause is when we least expect. It makes sense, then, to be ready for what God is doing.
His applause is connected to our faithfulness. When we are faithful in the little things, He makes us ruler over much.
The more we’re faithful/obedient, the more He reveals the new. Be advised the new is something many haven’t seen in this lifetime. How do I know it’s new? The Lord said it; behold, I will do a new thing.
Did you not know it? What He is saying loud and clear is new to you and I, (in this dispensation) not new to the previous generations that have gone before us. That is clear, as the scriptures also state; there is nothing new under the sun.
What has been, it is what will be, and what has been done. It is what will be done. So there is nothing new. (Ecclesiastes 1: 9)
Is God's applause a real thing? Yes, indeed. He had to keep showing me until I finally saw it.
What’s the importance of His applause, its miracles, signs and wonders, in the Glory hour? God's canvas is magnanimous and without limitations. He leaves us all with an impression so great that our minds seemingly can’t comprehend.
But yet our hearts can fathom the enormity of its existence. Where does the heart and mind go to believe such a thing?
This is the thing our brainpower can compute; the most difficult computations breed something new and beautiful in God’s timing. Yet while interceding in that timing and space, I discovered, again, He is mindful of us all.
Did I see it as real or just an everyday occurrence? That view is funny in my eye. The leaves swaying was not the norm.
In my discovery, the swaying leaves were the anomaly and the surrounding leaves were the amazing truth. He could have used a number of things to blow our minds. But God chose the leaves, swaying to obtain my attention and to reveal something new.
As He peels the layers and avails anew my reply, I bow in reverence and blow kisses at the essence of Him. His applause became my blessed assurance.
Apostle Jacqueline Hudson is a Waycross resident and author of the book “Never Say Never: A Memoir with a Twist.”
