All day long, I've been asking God to show me something new of Him. To show up in a big way. "God, let the only thing missing in my life be more of you."
Today, I've been reminded again of the love of my earthly father.
God's been showing me that a lot. He's reminded me of all that my own dad has done for our family.
Pat Hicks is the closest example I have of God's love, provision, Jesus' obedience, and sacrifice. My dad desires to give me things and in the days when the Hicks Family didn't even have enough money to pay attention, my father would sacrifice his needs to fulfill the needs of his wife and kids, to fulfill our wants, even. Oh, how I thank God for the example He has given me of that man.
God tells me, "Alyssa, the amount your dad loves you is just a drop in the ocean of how much I love you, how much I want to give you. And you don't even realize how much that man loves you. I love you so much more."
I've learned how to obey God by obeying my father, I've learned to trust in God to provide, because I've always had that trust in my own dad to provide. I have an idea of God's love for us because of the love my dad has for my mom.
Oh, and my mother. She is the most Proverbs 31 woman I know, and it's an effortless task for her (it's kind of annoying) but that's the way God made her. I know what it means to be a woman because she has been nothing short of that my whole life. I have a better picture of who God is and I've learned to know Him better because of my parents and I thank God for that every day.
So, to all of those who are new parents, got one brewing in your belly or aren't talking to your teenager, let me tell you this: I know God better because my parents know Him better. I desire to know Him better because of my parents and I've been set out into the world because they know I belong to Him and I praise God for that, for them.
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