God is SO Good!

As I'm driving to Chick-fil-a this morning to get my girls lunch, as we do on occasion just to get out of the house, I have a cd of my current favorite Christian music playing. The first song is by Matt Redman called, "Never Once". I had listened to it twice already and heard Doo singing part of the chorus, "You are faithful, God You are faithful." I was already beginning to melt. When the song ended for the second time and the cd began playing another song, she spouted out from the back, "I want more faithful!!!"

I sat there with a little bit of a knot in my throat. I love hearing her sing praises to God. I love hearing her sing period. I love hearing her long to hear more of how faithful He is.

I called my dad to tell him about it and I was reminded of what he used to say to us all of the time growing up. "What goes in, comes out." It rang true with me as a child, as a teenager and even now as an adult. It's not that secular music is bad...some of the most beautiful music I often enjoy isn't Christian. However, I want my children to hear words that begin to get stuck in their brain and written on their hearts. Music that causes them to breathe in Jesus.

I believe that music affects you in a different way and can often reach you when other things can't. God uses music to speak to me all of the time. Specific songs have different meanings to me. There are pieces of instrumental music that I can see bits and pieces of my life unfolding to. Each of my children has songs that I can see their lives as snapshots. There is so much beauty in the simplicity of a melody....many times you add simple words of praise to our Savior and they become magical.

I long for my children to know that the joy of music comes from Jesus. He gave it as a gift in order to worship Him. Colossians 3:16, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your heart to God."

Hoping that you, too, find the JOY in worshiping the Lord as my Doo does! I'll leave you with "God is so Good." HE is indeed so GOOD...ALL the time!



Much love,
~K