God is SO Good! Good + Perfect Gift-Giver! Have You Met Him Yet?

Take a peek into my morning car ride convo with my youngest, Bo, about the goodness of God, how He is the Giver of good and perfect gifts, and how we can ask Him for things.

If you think God is a genie or a distant dad- you need this episode! Short, sweet and so powerful! Child-like faith, let's go!

Transcript

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Welcome back to the High Level Wife podcast. I'm Chelsea Holm, your host, and we do Marriage Godsway here. And I was just having a conversation this morning with my youngest Bo on the way to school. And he was asking me if we could put a zip line in our yard, which we live in a neighborhood where the trees are not that big and we don't have any trees that are close to our house. They're all, you know, along the road and whatever. And I said, Well, buddy, I'm sorry. I don't think we can we can do that because we we lack the trees and the structure to be able to do that. Um and we were in a neighborhood where there were very mature big trees everywhere in people's yards. And I said, See, see these houses and these trees, like those are set up to do that, but but ours just didn't. And he was like, Well, problem solved. Let's just build a platform for it and we can do that. And I was like, that sounds really expensive and intensive. And I said, you know, buddy, we're not gonna live where we live forever. At some point, we will move again per military life. And I said, I encourage you to pray for this because we our God is a big God and a generous God, and he cares about the little things like this, and he gives good and perfect gifts. And and I shared an example of how Gabe, when he when Gabe was probably, Gabe was probably, he was a little bit younger than Bo, but he had prayed that God would give us enough bathrooms because the house we were in had one and a half. Um and there were five of us, which is totally doable. But, you know, in his mind, that was something that was really important. He hated, you know, having to go to the bathroom and there weren't any opened because, you know, all the other ones were being used. So he had specifically prayed upon my encouragement to ask God specifically for the next house that we lived in to have enough bathrooms for everybody. And um, and this is how good God is, right? Like, so the next house we moved to, it had enough bathrooms for everybody, plus a half bathroom. So not only did God answer that question of that little boy's heart, but he went above and beyond and gave us an extra, right? And so God also gave me a link in that house too, that just a confirmation through the piece of we pulled up and hide range of bushes in the front, and I love them. And um, God is just so good like that. And so I was telling Bo this, I was like, okay, Bo, so you know, start praying and asking God for our next house to that it has a zip line or we could build one, right, with trees or whatever. Um he's like, okay. And then I was thinking too, like, I don't want my kids being confused and thinking that God is some genie, right? That you ask him and he gives you whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want, right? Because he's absolutely not. And so I said, Well, you know, God is a good, good father. And I said, What if, what if you prayed and asked God for a bunch of candy, right? I said, Do you think God would give that to you? And he was like, Oh no. And I said, Well, why? And he's like, Because that's not good for me. That would make me sick. And I said, That's right. I said, God is like that. He is such a good, good father that he won't give us something that is not going to be good for us, or it's gonna be the wrong time for us, or he has something different and better for us instead. Um, and and Bo was like, Yeah, that makes so much sense. And I'm just like, this is why, you know, let all the little children come to me. Like that childlike faith. It's in these moments, these conversations with my kids, especially when they're younger, that I just see that so much because they things that adults struggle to understand, kids are just like, Yeah, that makes so much sense, right? Um, and so I I just I wanted to share that story with you because I want to encourage you that, you know, God is such a good God. He is a He is the giver of good and perfect gifts and He loves us and He cares about the little things like that, right? Those little ways that He shows us that He cares for our hearts and He holds our hearts. And also He is never going to give us something that is going to be the wrong thing for us, that is going to harm us, that we're not ready for, that if it's something He wants to give us, but He needs to prepare us first, He will. Because it's just like for your kids, right? Uh one of my kids who shall not be named loves ice cream, would eat it every meal, every day, all the day long. But that's not a great, that's that's not a great nutritionally beneficial practice, right? Occasionally, yes. Every day, every meal, no, right? Um, and it's so funny, and I'm sure you've had this thought or had this conversation maybe with your kids or just with your friends, that you know, as adults, we we have the freedom that we could just go to the store and buy stuff to make a cake or go buy a cake or whatever. Like we could do whatever we want, but we don't do those things because we're adults and we're mature and we realize those things aren't good for us, right? So even though now we could eat whatever we want whenever we want, we we choose and we are disciplined to make good decisions that are gonna fuel us and help us feel our best. I feel like there's a breeze, which is funny, Viv. I feel like there's a draft right now, which is so funny, because I just watched the newest uh movie version of Emma, Jane Austen's Emma. Um it's the one with the girl from Queen's Gambit. I can't remember the actress's name. And I think Bill Nye, the the actor, not the science guy, um, is in it. And anyways, because you know, like if you're familiar with Mr. Woodhouse, he always thinks there's a draft, and they're always he always thinks something's trying to kill him. Anyway, I just felt a draft on my legs and it made me laugh and think of that. Um, if you're a Jane Austen fan, uh leave me a review and let's let's uh bond over that, yeah, that common ground. Anyway, so I I just I think that in under in order to understand God more maturely, more fully, as our good, good father, it's it we need to have this understanding first of how he functions. This is why we need to look at his word as a whole, from old testament to new testament, because his character never changes, he is always the same, and we can trust him and we can believe him, and we can understand and learn how in our maturity, as we mature as believers and walking with him and in learning his word and being corrected by the Holy Spirit and walking it out, right? Walking our faith out, we can learn that we want it is such a good thing, like it is not just such a good thing, it is the thing to align our hearts to his, to have the heart posture for God. What is it that you want me to have? What is it that, you know, and this is this is that overflow where we pray those hard prayers too of like, God, this is this is what I want, but I know I'm not ready for that. Prepare me for it, for it. Put me through a pressing season to prepare me for that, if that is what you have for me. And if it's not, teach me to be satisfied or reveal to me what it is that I should be asking for that is in alignment with your heart. And it's such a good lesson that, you know, for Bo and such a good conversation that I wanted to share with you too, um, because you can trust in God's heart. You can trust in his character because he never changes, because he is always the same, and because he is always good, whether we understand or not, but it's not our own understanding we lean on, right? We trust in the Lord God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We don't lean on our own understanding, but we've we trust him, right in all his ways. In all our ways, he will make our paths straight. I will see you on the next episode.