Dearest Daddy,
A year ago today, you went home to be with the Lord! It's been an amazing year of growth and a new found zeal of "running my race". We miss you.
Guess what? Well, today I was a guest on a podcast!! Can you believe it? I can't. When the video's out, I'll post right here-
Until then, this is what I wanted to share with everyone;
My Dad was an amazing man of faith. A great and truly wonderful man. All my life I never knew a moment when I thought he was living a life differently from what he preached.
A couple of years ago, I don't know why, but I said to myself, 'I don't think Daddy sins'. Hmm I don't know where that thought came from but it stuck in my mind. Fast forward 2022, when he passed away, I realized that God had given me a gift called my Dad's humanity.
He was sick for a while before he passed and in that time, I realized that I struggled a lot with the way my Dad responded to certain situations! He wasn't his usual Daddy-man-without-blemish. And when he fell short, it was tough on me. I had expectations that weren't being met, and although he was very strong in his faith and believed God for healing, there were pockets of his humanity that I had never experienced before.
The day he died, I cried and I felt sad about the shortcomings I had seen in him prior to his death. And that's when the Holy Spirit came to my wandering mind and uncovered the greatest blessing I could have ever received from the death of my lovely Dad.
It was as though He was saying "Welcome to My world! A world where I see everyone's sins, failures, weaknesses etc, even the men and women you admire, and think are larger than life; the people you see doing amazing and mighty acts of 'God' all over the world. Welcome to My world where I know every sin, fault and failure of all My mighty men and women of valor! And yet, I chose them. And guess what? I've chosen you too!" Oh boy!
Well, this "light" felt like it was the beginning of walking into the gates of FREEDOM. God isn't looking for a perfect man! It finally sank in. I had read it all the time in the scriptures; David was a murderer, Rahab a prostitute etc but this time, it found root in my heart.
Freedom doesn't mean to continue to, or to bask in your failures and sins, but instead it means we are so very much aware that where we are today is nothing short of His mercy, and where He's taking us, we mighty men and women of valor, will also be by His mercy. His grace. His goodness. His love. His patience. His kindness... our part is to yield to His beckoning. "Come all" literally. A yielded heart is what He's after. Yield by being in His Word with the help of the Holy Spirit and let Him guide you through this adventure called faith.
"When God our Savior revealed His kindness and love, He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit."
Titus 3:4-5 NLT
