A Gift from God

Next Sunday is Father’s Day and I must say that being a “Dad” is one of the most important things in my life.  As a Dad I have made many mistakes but I know that my children know that they are loved.  I have to travel a lot with my job but when I call home and hear my 8 year old say “Daddy” and hear the excitement in her voice it makes my day.  With my older two children (21 and 19) to see them grow into adulthood and to have them ask for advice or approval for a decision makes my day as well, to know that they value my opinion means the world to me. 

Psalms 127:3-5 says “Children are a gift from God; they are his reward.  Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows to defend him.  Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. That man shall have the help he needs when arguing with his enemies.”  Wow, I can definitely say AMEN to that.  I am 50 years old now and people often ask about our youngest who is 8 and say “I bet she keeps you young”, to which I say “nope, she keeps me tired!”  But other than the gift of salvation and a Godly wife there is no greater gift from God than our children. 

What does all of this have to do with a praise team blog, well I’m getting to that!  Throughout my children’s lives they have seen me involved in music ministries and they know that I love to worship through music and also to lead others in worship.  After singing yesterday morning in church I sat down with Gabby and she took the microphone from me and asked “is this yours to keep?” I informed her that it was mine during the time that I sang but that it belonged to the church. She then asked “when you retire from this job will you get to keep it?”  I’m not sure if she is trying to tell me that I spend too much time doing music (the job part), or if it’s time to hang it up (the retirement part). No matter what, it was a good laugh and children are a gift from God!
  
I am glad that God is our father because the love of a father is so precious and as his child I know that he loves me, and I’m sure I do things at times that cause him to laugh as well.  

Happy Fathers Day!

Geoff