Jack sat in his car with the engine running, radio on low as
Lauren Daigle sang ‘I will trust in you’.
He closed his eyes and listened to the poetic words. He thought about his beautiful daughter, now
in her thirties who had been praying for years for a child, a baby. And, his wonderful son-in-law, who stood by
her side every day. Jack thought – ‘defeat-after-defeat,
all they could do was trust in you Lord – for something magnificent to
happen – someday’. Jack listened to the
words - “when you don’t move the mountains - I needed you to move; when you
don’t part the waters - I wish I could walk through; when you don’t give the
answers - as I cry out to you – I will trust in you”.
For Jack, that was the part of being a believer that hurt
the most, that perplexed him the most – the hardest assignment Christ calls us
to – to trust in Him – no matter what.
Good or bad.
Looking at his watch, he needed to run – the courthouse was
open and the ceremony was about to begin.
The judge was going to be surprised at the magnitude of the crowd that
would stand in front of him this Friday morning in December, a sunny, warm
winter day in Texas. His daughters support group was there – to
vouch for her, as a mother, a leader.
All she needed now was the final approval from the judge – to make it
legal - and the boy would be hers.
Jack saw his Bible sitting on the passenger seat and picked
it up to find one last source of encouragement – maybe something he could share
later in the day. It flipped open to the
book of Daniel.
Daniel – ‘that’s weird’ he said. His new grandson’s name: a 10 year old blonde
headed miracle – a real stick of dynamite – born in California, now living in
Texas. Jack’s eyes were drawn quickly to
Daniel 2:48 – and he read “Then the king promoted Daniel to a high position in
the kingdom, lavished him with gifts and made him governor over the entire
province of Babylon and the chief in charge of all the wise men.”
Jack rushed inside to be a witness before the Judge, to be a
father to his daughter and Mzee to the new kid.
Daniel became his newest (and oldest) grand-child that day in December
2016.
