Confessions of a bebe-daddy

Ashley and I officially brought our adopted daughter bebe home on the 1st of April. For the two months or so, she called me ‘Sammy’.

Then one day, she started calling me ‘dad’...

For awhile my heart would skip a beat every single time she called me ‘dad’. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
It blew my mind.

10 months ago, I was just Sammy, but now that she is adopted into our family, I’m no longer Sammy. I’m dad. I cannot explain the delight I feel for her. The delight of being dad.

Its an incredible feeling.

But what’s even more incredible is the fact If you took my heart as a father [the delight I feel for bebe, the joy I experience when she calls me dad e.t.c] and you multiply it by a ‘kajillion’ degrees, you won’t even come close to Gods fatherly heart for us.

I know this is nothing new. The big guy is our father. Learned that in Sunday school... but only to the point of knowing him as a ‘fatherly figure’, which is not the same as dad.

I’m not just a ‘fatherly figure’ to bebe. I’m dad.

In the same way, the bible says through the cross, we’ve been adopted as sons and daughters. God isn’t just a fatherly figure. He is ‘DAD’.

I'm going to bebe’s basketball game tonight. Honestly, she’s not that good and she doesn’t fully understand the game. Sometimes she even plays defense on offense.

But you know what’s strange?

I can’t wait to watch her play. I literally can’t wait. I don’t even think I can tell you how much joy and delight I get from watching my daughter ‘play’.

Why?

Because I’m dad. And one thing dads do more than anything is ‘delight’.
Furious, Crazy, Heart skipping, Delight.

I know it sounds too good to be true but because of the cross, God is 100% delighted in his children. 100%.

One-hundred-percent.

Sometimes it's hard for me to believe that God fully delights in me because I'm not on a hot-streak of loving God. But then I think about bebe and I believe it a little more. I let myself sink further into Gods delight for me. What about you?

When or why is it hard for you to believe God 100% delights in you?