So, I was hanging out with my 6 month old daughter, Taylor, yesterday when she taught me an amazing lesson. We were just sitting on the couch playing. I was just holding her and she was looking around, moving around, jumping around...basically just being a restless 6 month old. She has just started sitting up on her own so I put her on the couch next to me with my arm around her. Well she continued to look all over, taking everything in, screaming in joy paying no attention to me but then something incredible happened. My daughter stopped looking around and moving around. She stopped making noise and then she put her head in my chest and just laid there. I don't know if there is any greater feeling in the world for a dad then the one I felt when she did this. I could stay in that moment forever with my child just resting on me quietly. She laid like that for a few short moments and then it was back to moving around and looking around, however I learned so much in those few moments.
In that moment, I was reminded of Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God." Watching my daughter, I realized that we are so much like her. We have this Father who wants to spend time with us, who loves us, who wants nothing more than for His children to put their heads in His chest and rest in Him. But most of the time we are too much involved with what is going on around us. See my daughter was trying to figure everything out. She was too interested in the amazing red drapes and the flashy television with all of its amazing colors. She was so distracted by all the things around her that she was not paying attention to the one who had provided all of those for her. In the same way, we are so distracted by all the things going on around us that too often we fail to pay attention to the one who not only provides everything but created everything.
But fortunately for me Taylor did have a moment where she stopped and realized her loving father was right there next to her. And the feeling that I got when she rested on me cannot be put into words and I would not trade it in for the world. I have to believe that God gets the same feeling when, in the midst of all the craziness in our lives, we stop...put our heads on our daddy's chest and rest in Him. I believe that is why over and over in His word He is trying to tell us to slow down and realize that we can find rest in Him. So when you find yourself caught up in the craziness of this life, when your distracted by all the things going on around you, may you realize that your Father is right there sitting on the couch next to you with His loving arm around you and may you turn off all the distractions, put your head on His chest and rest in Him.
