Josiah Scott

Very few things affect you like the birth of a child. Seeing Josiah emerge into this world today was amazing. God's handiwork over the last 9 months revealed! As I lay awake many a night processing the thoughts of the day, whether about one of our youth at the church or my own children or just something heavy on my heart, I often pondered what Josiah would look like, just how God was creating him within his mother's womb. I also reflected on this fallen world and how much he is born dependent. Not just on his mom and dad but exclusively on his Maker. There is also an amazing revelation once again of true love, God's love. The very fact that God has fulfilled His Word as I seek to be filled by the Spirit to love my wife selflessly and another life is created. God is so gracious to speak forth the Gospel through people if only people would listen. The very desperation Josiah has for a Savior is met through God's love flowing through His Son, through us, communicated to our child. THe words of Deuteronmy 6 ring in my head. "....you shall teach them diligently.....you shall love the Lord your God.......the home is the pulpit of God through which He communicates much of His character. Whether the character of a Father, the tenderness of a mother, brotherhood (sisterhood) or even adoption as I have been grafted into His family. God is amazing! I am thrilled yet fearful with this new responsibility. How exciting it is to see and hear revelation from God, but with it great responsibility to respond and trust God in complete faith that He is able to do what I cannot. What is entirely clear to me, is that apart from His I am nothing! Christ is my life, my everything! This Dad cannot deliver what his children need. This Dad cannot love his wife apart from the love of Christ being poured into Him. How glorious the gospel of our Savior and Lord! God grant I pray through Christ, wisdom, discernment, spiritual, emotional, psychological, and physical protection as Bonnie and I embark on yet another chapter of adulthood and parenthood together raising Josiah as our other children. MAy you receive praise as we have chosen a name carefully for him in the midst of a disloyal world who has very little heart for you. May his heart be completely yours like Josiah of old in 2nd Kings 22. May he run after you as he sees his parents clinging to You as their only Strong Tower. We are safe in Him, content, at peace, knowing we love, because we have been well loved.