I’m typing this while sitting on the floor next to my three week old daughter who’s trying so hard to fall asleep that she’s making herself mad. Her beautiful frailty reminds me of who I am before God.
The last three weeks since she was born I’ve had every emotion—excited, frustrated, passionate, exhausted, pure love… I’ve been humbled and amazed that this little baby is a living parable telling me about who God is and who I am.
Here are the things I know about God because I feel these ways for my baby:
- God loves me more than I can know
- God cleans up my messes—even when they’re really messy
- Just because I’m crying doesn’t mean that God isn’t doing what’s best for me
- God loves me because I’m his child, not because of what I do
- I don’t understand 99.9% of what God has done for me
- God has always provided
- He knows my cry and can interpret what I need better than I can articulate it
- God has a lot of patience
- God feels a deep sense of responsibility for me
- God gave up a lot of important things for me
- God must love our worship, when I hear my baby coo it melts my heart
- God is a comforter
- I am weak but he is strong
- When I scream in his face he is worried about me
- I’m essentially useless to God right now, but he loves me any way
- God wants good for me
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