I love how thorough God truly is.  I don’t know why I am continuously inspired by this fact, but I am.  There are some things in life I’m rather thorough about, but for the most part, I leave the little details for my wife who thrives on them.  In the work setting I have always left these details to my secretary or someone in the working team who simply found these as their gift–it is not mine.  So, when I see God’s detail coming out, I am always impressed and amazed.

Yesterday I wrote about God awakening in me the need for me to bless my dad along with forgiving him.  The forgiving part I’d done many years ago.  I was telling this to my share group last night during the last hour of our Celebrate Recovery.  At the end of the hour when we had closed the group, one of the men told me that he just didn’t understand why I was feeling convicted about blessing my dad.  He told me he had read my book twice and he said there were a number of times I had given dad compliments as well as what he’d call–blessings.  I knew he was right about my giving credible attention to dad’s strengths when I wrote the book, but my need to give dad a blessing was a heart issue, not an action issue.  This came out for me when I had my devotions this morning.  I was journaling about this very thing.  God made it clear that when I wrote the book 1.5 years ago I had put the balancing side of dad in it.  I knew I needed to tell a complete picture of him and so I did it out of obedience.  God wanted me doing it from my heart.  That is where true forgiveness come from and it completes forgiveness.  Today I see this clearly.

I found it really insightful that to a reader of my book I had fully forgiven dad and the blessing side of forgiveness was there.  But the detail of forgiveness only God knows and my younger brother felt wasn’t complete.  God knew my heart and Ron felt it.  Today, those are now in congruence and I am a freer man.  This is the thoroughness of detail I was referencing about our magnificent God.  He leaves no stone unturned when He is completing His work in our lives.  I love Him for this even though it has some uncomfortable moments.  The other side of those moments is so freeing.  Thank You Father.