ENJOYMENT

God made us in order to find His joy in us, as in the rest of creation.
'It is good' is pronounced at each stage. Much of creation, hidden from our sight, is marvelled over by the Creator. The Father and the Son were bound up in rejoicing, as the world was made. Proverbs 8: 30
The Holy Spirit too, was caught up in the wonder of creation.
Genesis 1: 2

Above all the Son delights in man.
Proverbs 8: 31
He has chosen to need us to complete His joy.
He is the Bridegroom, we are His Bride. We surmise that God came walking in the cool of evening, in order to enjoy fellowship with Adam and Eve. Unbelieveably, man chose to find his joy elsewhere, by becoming a god himself and so cut himself off from the only source of true enjoyment. Ever since he is a wanderer who is never satisfied.

Jesus came to restore that joyous fellowship.
John 15: 11.
While there is mourning for rebellion and self-love, we must not loose sight of that for which we have been redeemed and to enter into its fulness.
John 17: 13

One of the greatest human joys we have, is to find enjoyment in each other, mirroring the pleasure found in the Song of Songs. As Wisdom rejoiced before the Father during creation, and as God joys over us with singing, is it too fanciful to conceive of these scenes as a glorious dance, of God playing with His people, much as lovers do who are delighting in each other?

'The Lord your God in your midst,
The mighty One will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you in His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing'.
Zephaniah 3: 17

Hardly surprising that C S Lewis was 'Surprised by Joy'.