This is the weekly email devotional of WhoUWith?
Ministries (2003)
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"Daddy, I'm not hung...it's a real
fish!!!" --Shelby Brown
Football season is a little crazy around
my house. Since I travel with the team, I'm gone several weekends in the fall.
During my absence, it is rare for my three year old, Kelsey, and my wife to go
without a showdown of the wills. Recently, one of these showdowns occurred as
my wife was driving our girls to my in-law's house for a visit. Kelsey had hit
her peak in anger and decided to express her displeasure by hurling a happy
meal toy at my wife's head! Thankfully, she just missed and instead, struck the
radio and dashboard (this part of her personality comes from her mother).
Aimee, my wife, immediately pulled the car over for a time of
"corrective counseling" with our little shot putter. As this time of bonding
between mother and daughter ended, Kelsey announced at the top of her lungs, "I
want my daddy, right now!!!!" What she didn't know was the last person she
wanted to see after her attempted assault of my wife was me, but in her little
mind I was the only one who could rescue her from evilness that had abducted
her once loving mother.
What does God’s Word
say?:
"Abba,?*? Father," he said, "everything is possible for you.
Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will, not
mine." Mark 14:36
For "Anyone who calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved."Romans 10:13
Isn't it
interesting that in Jesus' greatest time of trial...just before His
crucifixion...He cries out "Abba, Father", or "Daddy"? Have you ever been
there? Lost your job, spouse moves out on you, someone you love gets cancer,
you lose your starting spot on the team, you have a season-ending injury...I
could keep going, but you get the picture. Have you been at that place where
you just wanted "Daddy"?
Just like my little girl, we are going to
experience times of suffering and trial. Sometimes, like with Kelsey, we
experience these times due to the consequences of our own poor choices and
actions. Yet at other times it has nothing to do with what we may have done,
but all about how we will exercise our faith in response to the trial.
You can be riding along in life; just minding you own business, when
things come flying at you like a high velocity happy meal toy. Your response
will say a lot about what, or Who, you trust.
What about you? Is it up
to you to get you through? Or, just maybe, you need to call out to your
heavenly Daddy and let Him get you through! I can't speak for you, but there is
not a day that goes by that I don't say, "I want my Daddy, right now!"
Just a thought!
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