‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’ This declaration by the voice from Heaven – the voice of God – is an amalgamation of two earlier pieces of scripture: ‘You are my son; today I have begotten you’ (Ps 2:7) and ‘Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights’ (Is 42:1). The fact that it is uttered before Jesus has begun his ministry is a sign to all of us that God delights in us for who we are, not for what we have achieved in our lives.
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