Insights From Parenting

Being a parent have crystallized many things for me about the Father-Child relationship that we as Believers and adopted joint-heirs with Christ have with God.

As an aside, that concept, of being the child and heir of the all-mighty, omnipotent, only wise God is enough to completely obliterate mental circuit-breakers.

I was browsing through our blog roll, catching up on some of the blogs that I've gotten behind on, when I reread a post my cousin wrote about how a bad dream her son had turned into a good night of cuddling with and enjoying her little boy.


This made me think about how it's when
Nathan has fallen and hurt himself or been frightened that he clings to me the tightest. I'm not a very big guy and Nathan's little arms barely fit around my neck. When he needs comforting, I can scoop him up and completely engulf him in my arms.

Many times, it is when I'm overwhelmed with life that I cling to God the tightest. It is wonderful that He is such an all surpassing God that when I run to Him, my arms don't even begin to fit around any part of Him. Engulfed in the magnitude of God, none of my hurts or worries come close to feeling significant at all.