Love and delight are intimately related. To love anything is to delight in it. Pure love includes pure delight. Such delight is an upwelling satisfaction, an inexhaustible happiness, an overflowing assurance of good.
It is the nature of divine Love to delight in its infinite spiritual creation. Forever expressing itself, Love can make nothing that is not forever lovely; and knowing no power except itself, Love cannot possibly feel fear or disappointment regarding its own flawless handiwork. Today as of old it declares of man, "Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Mark 1:11).
Christ Jesus knew himself to be the beloved of Love. He moved in the consciousness of God's delight in him. He constantly spoke of God as Father—his Father and our Father. In that affectionate term he expressed his intimate sense of unity with Spirit, Mind, the divine source of all being, the illimitable, creative power of the universe. He knew that the Father had sent him to manifest the divine nature to humanity, as the sun sends forth a ray of light as an expression of its own energy, a manifestation of its own light-giving nature. So sure was he that he was the Son of God, made in God's image and deriving all that he was from his divine source, that he could say with authority that whoever had seen him had seen the Father.
