GOD ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!!!

My quiet time is really rocking right now, and I felt inclined to share what God had to say to me today. I read out of Luke 5:4-11 and Psalm 149.

You know as a Christian, we are taught from day one to be submissive and meek, and often times I feel that meekness is misunderstood to mean that you are weak or timid. I beg to differ. God often times illustrates things to me through the eyes of a child, which in turn causes me to reflect on my own children. I'll put it to you like this, a truly meek individual is neither weak, timid, shy, or hesitant. Meekness in the biblical sense means trusting, confident, and secure. It was right here that God dropped the hammer on me, and showed me something I had never seen before.

My children, both girls, are naturally scared of everything in the world, bugs, dogs, the dark, but one thing that really gets them is a good ol' thunderstorm. They are petrified of lightning, and it never fails, when a storm approached the house when they were young, I could expect a knock at my bedroom door. They would come in and immediately want to crawl into my arms for comfort. They trusted me enough as their father, that as soon as I wrapped my arms around them, everything was alright, they were secure, and confident that nothing was going to happen to them.

As Christians I feel that sometimes we truly forget who God is, and we can all take note of how Simon (who later was named Peter) dropped everything, and followed Christ. Jesus is the One that holds our lives in His hands, and we have to be submissive enough to place our trust in Him, confident that He knows what is best for us, and secure enough in our faith to give our lives totally and completely to Him.