I'm adding these to my list of God's perfections as seen in Christ

I'm adding these to my list of God's perfections as seen in Christ -- nearness, might, salvation, joy, gladness, love, and exultation with loud singing over His people: "The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love, he will exult over you with loud singing" [Zephaniah 3:17].

classic religious syncretism

classic religious syncretism: “And I will cut off the name of the idolatrous priests, those who bow down on the roofs to the hosts of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom” [Zephaniah 1:5].

"Endless Happiness"

“He was Lord of the world, but did not come into to it to exercise dominion, nor, as the Jews expected, to procure their temporal redemption and restore the kingdom to Israel. He came not to make his followers rich and honorable, fortunate or conspicuous in the world. But He came to deliver His people from everlasting destruction, from the captivity of sin, and to teach them how, by a holy life, they might obtain an endless happiness. In a word, Christ came into the world to advance the glory of God and the happiness of the earth by restoring us to the favor of our Maker, and a conformity to Him And certainly, if we have any sense of the evil of sin or the misery of hell, of the beauty of holiness or the glory of heaven, it must be a matter of great joy to celebrate the birth of Him who delivers us from the one and gives us assurance of the other. Henry Scougal [1650-1678] The Nativity of Our Savior

Trusting in what we make and see as the object and attractive power of our “creative” worship?

"For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols." Habbakuk 2:18.

Do we worship worship? Are we trusting in what we make and see as the object and attractive power of our “creative” worship? Perhaps not like Babylonians who worshipped false gods, but more like syncretistic Israelites who worshipped the true God falsely.

Nahum and the magnificent range of God's perfections

“Wrath” and “refuge” – Wow, Nahum captures the magnificent range of God’s perfections – “His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows those who take refuge in him.”

As Edwards puts it, what an "admirable conjunction of diverse excellencies."

"She is not lost to you who is found in Christ"

"All the brethren and sisters of Christ must conform to His image and copy in suffering [Romans 8:29]. And some do more lively resemble the copy than others . . . Ye have lost a child: nay she is not lost to you who is found to Christ. She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which going out of our sight doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. Ye see her not, yet she doth shine in another country."

Samuel Rutherford [1600-1661] to the Elect and Noble Lady, my Lady Kenjiuke, on occasion of the death of her infant daughter [Tribulation the portion of God's people, and intended to wean them from the world.]

"The incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ"

This is the season for marveling at the Father’s sending the Son into the world [John 17:18] in a body that the Father has prepared for the Son [Hebrews 10:5] so that the Son might accomplish the works the Father has given to Him [John 5:36], namely the saving of His people from their sins [Matthew 1:21]. We believe, like the university creed I grew up with puts it, “in the incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.”

This season is not only for marveling at the good news of the Son’s saving His people from their sins, but of the Father’s promise, “the gospel of God which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son” [Romans 1:1-3] – and of the Spirit’s declaring Jesus “to be the Son of God in power according the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead” [Romans 1:4].

The Father promises, the Son descends by condescending to become David’s offspring according to the flesh, and the Son is declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness.

So we ponder in our hearts the glory of the Trinity’s saving work – “Laud and honor to the Father, / Laud and honor to the Son, / Laud and honor to the Spirit, / Ever Three and ever One, / One in might, and One in glory, while unending praises run.”