I got an email from my father recently. And it got me thinking about all of the things he's done for me over the years. He would dance with me standing on his feet, almost from before the time I could stand. He never failed to give me a Valentine's day card every February 14 - I still have them all, safely tucked away in my dresser. He was always my biggest fan at all of my dance and theater performances - the first bouquet of flowers that I ever got, in fact, were from him, and 10 years later, one of the blooms is still carefully dried and preserved in a place of honor in my bedroom.
He took me racing with him, he showed me how to hammer a nail and install trim and lay tile, and taught me how to do work that I could be proud of. He has encouraged me and protected me and given me his wise, godly advice in so many areas of my life, on so many different occasions. Of course we had our spats, but my overall impression of my father is that he did his best to make sure that I felt loved.
My dad had neither the financial means nor the time to do big, grandiose things for me. But he made sure, in small, persistent ways, that I knew that I was loved. It was not the big things, but the little things that he did for me that kept me going. Our heavenly Father is no different. Sure, He's got the whole world in His hands....but as the Psalmist points out, He's also the One who is always faithful, who's love endures through all times. Praise the Lord!
He took me racing with him, he showed me how to hammer a nail and install trim and lay tile, and taught me how to do work that I could be proud of. He has encouraged me and protected me and given me his wise, godly advice in so many areas of my life, on so many different occasions. Of course we had our spats, but my overall impression of my father is that he did his best to make sure that I felt loved.
My dad had neither the financial means nor the time to do big, grandiose things for me. But he made sure, in small, persistent ways, that I knew that I was loved. It was not the big things, but the little things that he did for me that kept me going. Our heavenly Father is no different. Sure, He's got the whole world in His hands....but as the Psalmist points out, He's also the One who is always faithful, who's love endures through all times. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 92
1 It is good to praise the LORD
and make music to your name, O Most High,
2 proclaiming your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp.
and make music to your name, O Most High,
2 proclaiming your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp.
4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD;
I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5 How great are your works, LORD,
how profound your thoughts!
6 Senseless people do not know,
fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.
I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5 How great are your works, LORD,
how profound your thoughts!
6 Senseless people do not know,
fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.
8 But you, LORD, are forever exalted.
9 For surely your enemies, LORD,
surely your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
10 You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
fine oils have been poured on me.
11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
surely your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
10 You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
fine oils have been poured on me.
11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13 planted in the house of the LORD,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit in old age,
they will stay fresh and green,
15 proclaiming, “The LORD is upright;
he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13 planted in the house of the LORD,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit in old age,
they will stay fresh and green,
15 proclaiming, “The LORD is upright;
he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
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