“The LORD your God in your midst, a victorious warrior (a warrior who saves), He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love (or with some ancient versions -- renew you in His  love), He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.”   Zephaniah 3:17
The Amplified Bible says, ‘..He will rest [in silent satisfaction]…”

What would cause the Lord’s heart to be such that He would shout for joy?
Would we not think it is a child of His who reverences Him above all else?  One who trusts completely and who seeks to do His will?  One who cleaves to Him in joyous fellowship placing all of life’s earthly circumstances into His hands and, therefore, being “anxious for nothing”?
(Philippians 4:6b)

This is a child who is at rest in his soul.  It is the rest of God that the Lord bids us to enter into as we have seen in previous messages.

Does it not fill your heart with joy knowing that there is this place of comfort and peace?  In this world were evil is rampant, we have the assurance that we see in 1 John 4:4,
“Little children, you of God [you belong to Him and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of antichrist], because He who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.  The Amplified Bible

And we see in Proverbs 2 the security that wisdom brings.  Christ is our wisdom!
“For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Guiding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
For wisdom will enter your heart,
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will guard,
Understanding will watch over,
To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness.”  Vs. 6-13

This wisdom is from above!  James 3:17 tells,
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.”
James 1:5-8 tells us,
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
he is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

In this passage we see that faith is the key to gaining wisdom!  And we know that Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith.  Therefore, let us look away from all that would distract us and fix our eyes on Christ Jesus our Lord.

All praise to our King of kings and Lord of lords.    Amen