Now I know that I normally talk about a verse, but today I am going to do something a little bit different. My wife, Tuesday (December 1st) gave birth to our first child, a beautiful baby girl. So in today's post I want to talk about things that God has shown me from this amazing experience.
1. God is so amazingly patient with me!
I was trying to keep my baby from crying last night from 11 pm to 3:30 am! During this time I was getting so frustrated when I felt the Lord say to me "how do you think I feel?" What do I believe God was telling me? While I was holding this innocent baby who was crying because she was hungry (or something else, who knows), I was getting frustrated with her in the midst of her innocence. God, on the other hand, deals so graciously with me when I, unlike my baby girl, deliberately disobey Him. This baby has helped me understand how patient God is with me!
2. God deals with our messes
When my baby had her first mess, it was kinda crazy, because the nurse said "here dad, time to change her diaper." At that point I had a serious panic attack, because I had never changed a diaper (at least I don't remember ever changing one)! It was awful! I got baby poop all over my hand and in her little bed (which I have learned is called a bassinet). At this point I realized that God does a whole lot better with our messes then I did with my baby's first mess. God has given us His Word, which is alive and active, and if we take our messes to Him, He speaks to us on so many different levels. We give Him our problems and He gives us solutions or we give Him our dirty diapers and He gives us the opportunity to be changed!
3. God is ridiculously in love with us
The Word tells us that we are God's children, which has always been pretty cool for me to read, but now it has even more of an impact. When I look at my little baby girl, I think that I would do ANYTHING for her! I would die for her with a smile on my face and I will hold her while she is screaming her head off all night! So when God chooses that Father-son/daughter relationship to describe our relationship with Him, it now makes a whole lot more sense. One thing my baby girl has shown me is that God is ridiculously in love with me, because I am ridiculously in love with my daughter!
Love you guys!
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