Today I was driving my two youngest (my little blond haired angel - 4; my little brunette angle - 2) to their Bitsy's (Wife's Mom) on my way to work. I have a custom with the girls, whenever we get going in the car we listen to some of the music that we all have fallen in love with from movies that we have seen (I really love downloading music...sometimes too much). I have a disk that has become our favorite. It has the "Little Wonders" song from Meet the Robinsons, and a few songs from the most recent Curious George movie. They are really great songs for an early morning drive...soft, sweet, and brings a smile to your face.
Well, this morning I was in a hurry and forgot to turn the music on for us all to enjoy. My little two year old, in her cute little broken language, stated a desire for some "mufic". Realizing that I had forgotten to turn it on, I slip in our favorite disk and the music began to fill the air. This is the time during the post that I wish I could have recorded the next sounds I heard, because I will never be able to amply describe the beauty that came next. To hear a two and four year old sing a song is one of the cutest things in the world. To hear them sing words like,
" Let it slide, let your troubles fall behind you, let it shine,
Till you feel it all around you,
And I don't mind, if it's me you need to turn to, we'll get by,
It's the heart that really matters in the end."
will melt your heart.
While they were singing these words, I could not help but to begin to say in my head....I love these kids. Now, I was not saying the word love like the world today throws the word around. I really LOVE these kids. I would die before I would ever want to see something bad happen to them, but bad things still do happen. It kills me whenever I see them fall and scuff a knee. I HURT when my 8 year old comes home from school and feels she has been mistreated by friends. I go to bed at night praying for God to give me the strength to be the father they need. I LOVE MY FAMILY, and will do all I can to always let them know that I am here for them.
With this, I began to feel a warm feeling, almost like a hug, come over me. I can not say that I heard God say, "I love you", but what I felt made me believe that God was essentially saying to me, "You love those kids that I have given you, imagine how much more I love them and you."
John 1:11-13 says:
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
Romans 8:38-39 says:
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Well, this morning I was in a hurry and forgot to turn the music on for us all to enjoy. My little two year old, in her cute little broken language, stated a desire for some "mufic". Realizing that I had forgotten to turn it on, I slip in our favorite disk and the music began to fill the air. This is the time during the post that I wish I could have recorded the next sounds I heard, because I will never be able to amply describe the beauty that came next. To hear a two and four year old sing a song is one of the cutest things in the world. To hear them sing words like,
" Let it slide, let your troubles fall behind you, let it shine,
Till you feel it all around you,
And I don't mind, if it's me you need to turn to, we'll get by,
It's the heart that really matters in the end."
will melt your heart.
While they were singing these words, I could not help but to begin to say in my head....I love these kids. Now, I was not saying the word love like the world today throws the word around. I really LOVE these kids. I would die before I would ever want to see something bad happen to them, but bad things still do happen. It kills me whenever I see them fall and scuff a knee. I HURT when my 8 year old comes home from school and feels she has been mistreated by friends. I go to bed at night praying for God to give me the strength to be the father they need. I LOVE MY FAMILY, and will do all I can to always let them know that I am here for them.
With this, I began to feel a warm feeling, almost like a hug, come over me. I can not say that I heard God say, "I love you", but what I felt made me believe that God was essentially saying to me, "You love those kids that I have given you, imagine how much more I love them and you."
John 1:11-13 says:
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
Romans 8:38-39 says:
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Side note: The word use here "convinced" - the word used in the Greek New Testament - has a sense of great work put behind what he now believes. You almost get a sense that Paul is saying, I have not come to this conclusion just because I want to, because it's convenient and it's something I want to believe...I have had to be "convinced" of this...I have had to be shown this to be true)
You see, we can not begin to understand the love that God has for us. I believe that the love that we are capable of is just a drop in the bucket to the perfected love that God has within Him. But for discussion sake, lets say that God can only equal the amount of love that I have for my own children, then I am thinking we are going to be alright.
You see, we can not begin to understand the love that God has for us. I believe that the love that we are capable of is just a drop in the bucket to the perfected love that God has within Him. But for discussion sake, lets say that God can only equal the amount of love that I have for my own children, then I am thinking we are going to be alright.
2 comments:
I think that is why Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me." Because they are just about the last ounce of innocence left and God desires for us to be like that. To stop trusting in ourselves and others and almost blindly leap off that ledge for Him. I say leap off that ledge figuratively by the way. Great post, God bless your family.
Well said my friend.
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