God is so good.

Everyone of us that ever went to Sunday School or Vacation Bible School has heard that simple song. Such a very simple melody to the song. Very repetitive. Most kids like it because it's over really fast. I wonder though how many of us ever really got the simple, yet powerful message in the song.

God is so good. He took my sin. Now I am FREE. He's so good to me.

As a child, I remember singing the song with all three lines. It was instilled in my brain at an early age. I was blessed to be raised in a home where Jesus was talked about on a daily basis. As a teenager, in fact, my mothers last words to us before we would leave the house were, "Remember Whose you are." Such powerful words. They kept us from doing things we shouldn't, not only because we would disappoint our parents, but because we would disappoint Him.

I love the simple words of this song, because they are easy for a preschooler to learn. They are easy for them to remember in the middle of the night one day when they are older because they were etched on their heart at an early age.

I am watching my girls learn things, especially Doo, soak things up like a little sponge. She's learned where her nose is (and mine too), to say baby when she holds hers...etc. It's amazing what she learns so quickly. I am realizing that she soaks up what we put out! As parents, we have been given the responsibility to teach our little ones about who He is and what He has done. There are so many ways in which to do so--the first is by example. A task that I am daily humbled by. I am so far from perfect and hope to lead my girls in the direction that they should go...and then I am comforted by that simple little song with powerful words.

God is so good. He took my sin. Now I am FREE. He's so good to me.

Much love,
~K