ANOTHER HUMILIATION FROM MY DAUGHTER, EMBER!!
She is constantly opening my eyes to areas where I’m getting it seriously wrong! Like she told me last year that it looked like I had abandoned my sons. Let me tell ya, super mama was back, by the grace of God, with the mindset that I’m raising future world leaders, baby! Yesterday I was at my son’s Emmie field day at school, literally crying happy tears, so proud of my family. We ain’t perfect, but we’re pretty close!
So, this week I said something to Ember in regards to the crazy, sad, and depressed mama that shows up way too often, and she said, “That’s the usual.” Wow! Just the wake-up call I needed. Then she got me again yesterday when she said all I do is come home and fall on our sofa asleep watching these depressing shows on TV. Ouch! Nik, is this the example you want to show your kids, especially your daughters? But like I always say, “It’s a celebration when we discover our weaknesses!” Especially when we add in the God factor! Wink! Wink!
It’s unbelievable how God figures out these ways to let me know that He is intimately involved in every detail of my life. On the way to my God tree, I was having one of my crazy lady moments, and I removed the photo I had there captioned:
“… and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them.”
Can you believe He figured out a way to let me know He was there with me? Look what incredibly showed up on page 32, at 32 minutes past the hour, a post I wrote seven years ago:
““LET’S HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH GOD”
I said to my Julie, my then eleven-year-old sweetheart before she left for school. I grabbed her daily devotional for girls and randomly opened it for us to read together. The Bible verse quoted for that day was John 4:16:
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” Wink! Wink!
That lined up too perfectly to be considered some ordinary coincidence! As if God was saying, ‘Nik, I saw you deleting that pic a few minutes ago!’ I was immediately reminded that God is calling me to be my most loving self no matter what anyone else is doing.
Under that tree is where I strategize with God about issues I’m currently dealing with, and He had this to say about something I had on my mind:
“But God is saying to you…Be still and know that I am your God. I will fight all your battles and give you victory.”
I ended up calling my husband in Nigeria, and of all the people in the world with him, there was our good friend Godwin. Got that wink? God had just told me that I should be still and He would fight my battles and give me victory, and GOD WIN (Wink! Wink!) just happened to be the person with my husband minutes later. (HUGE SMILE)
Are you getting to learn God’s fun, sweet and playful personality? Like two minutes before getting there to the tree, I had a fun time listening to Kid’s Laroi’s song ‘Without You,’ and I smiled with God about a joke we have about it. So, at 32 minutes past the hour, look what else showed up on page 32:
“Fast forward to me having to rush out to work, I put my music on shuffle, and the first song to play was ‘Without You’ by The Kid LAROI. (Wink! Wink!)
Again, this lined up too perfectly to be an ordinary coincidence. It was God letting me know that His invisible Presence is always with me. And this knowledge gives me the confidence to go through my life joyfully and at peace, knowing He is fighting all my battles. LONG STORY SHORT: GOD WINS! Are you making your relationship with God a priority? We need Him!