God Knuckles

It was a good morning. I haven't gotten up to spend time with God in longer than I care to admit...and my wife insisted that we get up today. And I finally did... And it was sweet. It was awesome.

We were praising God with the kids (again...something we intend to do more of on a more consistent basis) and a song came on...

I will never leave you
I will not forsake you
I will always be with you

And I was holding our 13 month old, Koen, and as the song went on to talk about how God is always with us through our trials...

...it hit me!

In a new way...in the way that things hit you that you've thought of and acknowledged before...but that still catch your breath and freshly resonate deep at your core.

My boys will have trials.

UGH.

Daddy doesn't like that. I just want to keep them safe...away from this world and all the junk that is in it.

Protected...

And isn't that what Jesus is all about? Isn't that why God sent His ONLY Son to earth? My Daddy in heaven didn't like what the world had to offer me either. What the world had become...so He sent me a Savior. He sent us a Savior. We should really rejoice in that more!

So I come full circle...and I know that I can protect them...through that precious blood of Jesus. And that for all the things that will come and for all the things that will be...they matter not. I want to commune with my Maker. I want to know Him more intimately. I WILL SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO ME!

And, today...

He will never leave ME
He will not forsake ME
He will always be with ME.

Me!

Right here and right now! I rest in that. I resolve to know that. Not only in my head...I resolve to know that in my heart.

When I go out into the world today...I'm taking God with me.

So if you see me pump my fist in the air and wonder what I'm doing...?


I'm just giving knuckles to God and saying, "We got this".