When God Winks {God Winks Again}

My boys and I started a new habit this year of devotion time together before bed. What they don't realize is how many times the message is as much for me as it is for them.

When I opened the book last night, the title for the devotion was "It Feels Good to Obey and Forgive." I couldn't help but smile. I read the words to my boys about doing the right thing by forgiving other people and how you'll feel good knowing you're obeying God. I felt myself smile even more.

That's when it hit me.

I was smiling.

Two weeks earlier I had read a devotion about forgiving others and fought back tears because I knew what God was asking me to do. I had wrestled with God many nights in the wee hours of the morning. It wasn't fair that I had to be the one to ask for and offer forgiveness when the other person wasn't sorry at all.

Last night I found myself smiling because my feelings had finally caught up. The joy I expected to feel the day before in the midst of my faithfulness had finally shown up. And I was filled with hope.