when it all clicks

Have you had a moment lately when you feel like things have clicked together. I have these moments regularly but they are not when i have figured it out but when the Holy spirit works it out in me.

In the last three weeks my family has seen big changes we have welcomed a new child into our family, and now have three girls under the age of 4 figuring life out together. My wife and I were talking last night about what it is that God is doing in us as parents. The thing that has been overwhelmingly clear is that God desires to make us more like Jesus. I feel like marriage was a no big deal transition in life, but being a parent has been what God has used to make me more dependent on Him. I love the picture that parenting a toddler paints for me. you can instruct a toddler they seem to get it and then as quickly as there is a shimmer of understanding it falls away. This must be a wonderful picture of Gods interaction with us. We seem to get it and we are walking byt the spirit and as soon as we lose sight of our Savior we fall away.

So back to the click, I now feel like things fit together better, that my instruction and discipline of my children is just as much for me as it is for them. It is this beautiful reminder of how God wants me to respond to Him. To be soft and obedient to recognize when i have disobeyed and failed. This process is also for me to show my children a small picture of what God is like (see exodus 34 for the exact description) although it be really small picture. My desire is to be more like Christ but not by my effort but by the Holy Spirit shaping me through all that God has in store for me.