Well hey everyone!
Isaac here. It’s been a couple weeks, so I feel as if some explanation is due for my absence. On March 12th at 2:50 A.M., my son Kai entered the world. To say the past week and a half has been emotional is an understatement, but for all the right reasons. He’s healthy, he’s happy, and most importantly he’s here.
What more could a parent want? Health, joy, and presence. Let’s talk about it.
God, our Father in heaven, has made and continues making it abundantly clear His desire for us to live a full life (John 10:10), because ultimately we know it is a foretaste of the life to come with Him in perfect unity. For now though, only glimpses here and there. Through people, places, experiences, the list goes on.
And yet…
We worry, we complain, we become far too adept at pulling up bootstraps, we leave God behind for a path much more easily stumbled upon. A path of immediacy and convenience, lacking in genuine growth and a cheap replication of a full life.
How do we so easily end up here time and again?
Well, we might need to ask the aforementioned question in a new light…what more could a parent want? What more could God, my Father, want? You see, God’s desire for us goes far beyond the box that we play in. His love for us is wideeeeee, farrrrrrrr, deeeeeeeeppp (Ephesians 3:18) and we somehow miss that, must be that screen that causes us to act no different than a moth when it sees the inviting glow of a flame.
When I held my son for the first time, of course I wanted him to be healthy and happy, but what I was most concerned about at that moment was his presence. He wasn’t in the amorphous “there” anymore, he was here. With me. Now.
God loves us so deeply, and of course this love shows itself in ways that we do experience moments of good health, powerful pangs of joy, but what He wants to communicate most is that He is not off in the ethereal “there,” He is here. Even in the moments that you worry, complain, pull those bootstraps up just one more time, He is here.
Rest in His presence, like my son has rested in the arms of his mom and dad (just maybe don’t spit up as much).
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Be in prayer for our Union team that will be heading back out to the Navajo nation this coming May as we prepare them to lead and share the love of Christ with the amazing people out there.
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