Psalm 89:1
Your love, God, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
I'll never quit telling the story of your love—
how you built the cosmos
and guaranteed everything in it.
Your love has always been our lives' foundation,
your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
You know the type. Your girlfriend who is newly married calls you and you are the lucky winner who gets to hear all the barftastic details of their honeymoon. Then you get to see it all posted in an hour by hour, picture by picture detail on Facebook. The next time you're with her, she says "my husband" about 332 times. Fast forward a few years and she is that girl that blows up Instagram with a photo of everything her amaaaaaaaaaaaazing hubby did for her on their anniversary. Lucky you.
It's the same thing when you have kids. They're just too cute and too funny and everyone must know. I am definitely guilty of sharing lots of pictures and stories about them. Whether it's a romantic relationship or a parental relationship, the feelings are the same: people so undone by the love they're receiving that they need to share it. And by God, social media is ready and waiting, so why not?!
I have a really good friend, a single mom as well, that is in a new relationship and soooo in lurve. You can hear the excitement in her voice. When one is overwhelmed by love, they can't help but to share. Even if no words are spoken, their countenance speaks loud and clear.
How much more so with the love of God? I mean, seriously. If you think about how good he's been to you, what he's provided you with, how he's protected you, what bridges and valleys he's brought you over and through, how can you NOT talk about it, like, constantly.
A couple of months ago I blogged about the love story God's writing in my life. And it has nothing to do with an earthly man. At all. It's all Him -- providing, protecting, honoring and caring for me and my shorties. Even in the little things, he has shown Himself to be "enthralled by my beauty" (Ps. 45:11). To the human eye, ain't NADA spectactularly beautiful about me! I'm just a brown-haired brown-eyed, freakishly short 30 year old. Yet it's His vision of me that should speak the loudest in my life.
I love how the above verse says "Your love has always been our lives' foundation...Your fidelity has been the roof over our world." As a single person, and especially a single parent, I've found it's easy to be your own foundation. In the natural, everything falls on you --- earning the money, disciplining, nurturing, decision making, cleaning and so on (and on and on). At times, it can feel overwhelming and a little lonely. For me, I sometimes desperately want someone else to just make a decision around here. However, this verse reminds me I am not my own foundation. And I never will be. Even if some stud was to come like it and put a ring on it, God would still be my ultimate foundation. He always has been, always will be. Even while I'm overwhelmed, I'm supported. I'm covered by Him, the roof over our head. He's keeping the mortgage paid, food on the table and clothes on our backs. Always safe. Always secure.
And I can't be quiet about it. Like the Psalmist, I never want to quit telling the story of His love. I'll never run out of material anyway. Especially with my kids, more than me telling them the story of everything that didn't work out in my life, I want them to hear the story of how God's faithfulness through and in spite of things not going the way I planned. Not just the big things but the play by play details. And more than anything, I want them to know His faithfulness for themselves.
Your love, God, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
I'll never quit telling the story of your love—
how you built the cosmos
and guaranteed everything in it.
Your love has always been our lives' foundation,
your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
You know the type. Your girlfriend who is newly married calls you and you are the lucky winner who gets to hear all the barftastic details of their honeymoon. Then you get to see it all posted in an hour by hour, picture by picture detail on Facebook. The next time you're with her, she says "my husband" about 332 times. Fast forward a few years and she is that girl that blows up Instagram with a photo of everything her amaaaaaaaaaaaazing hubby did for her on their anniversary. Lucky you.
It's the same thing when you have kids. They're just too cute and too funny and everyone must know. I am definitely guilty of sharing lots of pictures and stories about them. Whether it's a romantic relationship or a parental relationship, the feelings are the same: people so undone by the love they're receiving that they need to share it. And by God, social media is ready and waiting, so why not?!
I have a really good friend, a single mom as well, that is in a new relationship and soooo in lurve. You can hear the excitement in her voice. When one is overwhelmed by love, they can't help but to share. Even if no words are spoken, their countenance speaks loud and clear.
How much more so with the love of God? I mean, seriously. If you think about how good he's been to you, what he's provided you with, how he's protected you, what bridges and valleys he's brought you over and through, how can you NOT talk about it, like, constantly.
A couple of months ago I blogged about the love story God's writing in my life. And it has nothing to do with an earthly man. At all. It's all Him -- providing, protecting, honoring and caring for me and my shorties. Even in the little things, he has shown Himself to be "enthralled by my beauty" (Ps. 45:11). To the human eye, ain't NADA spectactularly beautiful about me! I'm just a brown-haired brown-eyed, freakishly short 30 year old. Yet it's His vision of me that should speak the loudest in my life.
I love how the above verse says "Your love has always been our lives' foundation...Your fidelity has been the roof over our world." As a single person, and especially a single parent, I've found it's easy to be your own foundation. In the natural, everything falls on you --- earning the money, disciplining, nurturing, decision making, cleaning and so on (and on and on). At times, it can feel overwhelming and a little lonely. For me, I sometimes desperately want someone else to just make a decision around here. However, this verse reminds me I am not my own foundation. And I never will be. Even if some stud was to come like it and put a ring on it, God would still be my ultimate foundation. He always has been, always will be. Even while I'm overwhelmed, I'm supported. I'm covered by Him, the roof over our head. He's keeping the mortgage paid, food on the table and clothes on our backs. Always safe. Always secure.
And I can't be quiet about it. Like the Psalmist, I never want to quit telling the story of His love. I'll never run out of material anyway. Especially with my kids, more than me telling them the story of everything that didn't work out in my life, I want them to hear the story of how God's faithfulness through and in spite of things not going the way I planned. Not just the big things but the play by play details. And more than anything, I want them to know His faithfulness for themselves.
Hey Sarah! Thanks for writing this! I always read your blogs and feel encouraged by them! You mentioned in your blog how annoying it is when people brag about their husband on FB or instagram. And it just made me think isn't it the same when we post all the cute pictures of our kids just to show the world we think we have the cutest kid on the planet? And yes I do it too :-) I think that can come across like your bragging just the same as when people talk about something their husband did for them. Almost like my kid is cuter than yours. I guess there are people out there that can't have children and they might take it also as "lucky you". Anyway I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Seriously this just popped into my mind and so I thought I would write you. I'm not one to cause big controversies on fb haha but I would like to hear what you think about it...
ReplyDeleteOh Jen, I agree!!! And like I said before, I don't think most people do it to intentionally annoy people! Just like with my kids, I am overwhelmed by my love for them and sometimes, can't help but share it! I'm 100% sure my pics end up annoying people sometimes! But...I dont care haha! Some people probably do it to show off, but it's none of my business anyway.
DeleteThe point was that when we are overwhelmed by God's love, we should be sharing it as much as we do love in the human sense :) I want my kids to hear me never stop telling them about His love and faithfulness :)
Yeah I totally agree :-) When I read that it definitely challenged me in that. I so easily want to show off my love for my family but how much more I should for Him!! Thanks for writing this...
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