Unshakable

Okay, so I just got Kaelie to bed and finished praying with her. Volleyball tryouts for the junior varsity team are tomorrow morning at 8:00. She's pretty nervous, but her attitude about the whole thing completely blew me away.

I told her that she just needs to go out there and work her rear end off so that whether she makes the team or not, at least she can leave the court knowing that she gave it her very best effort. "Hopefully that will be enough," I said. "But if it's not, it just means that God has other plans for you this year and it will be exciting to see what's in store."

She smiled, nodded her head in agreement and said the most amazing thing. "The way I'm looking at it is that all this is just earthly kingdom kind of stuff. I need to keep my focus on the unshakable kingdom that counts."

I couldn't hold back a couple of tears. Hearing those words from the mouth of my 14 year-old daughter was such an unbelieveable encouragement to me. I'm so grateful for the beautiful work that God is doing in her. She came back from her Jeremiah Project mission trip yesterday wearing a t-shirt with "unshakable" written on it. That was the theme for the entire week. Taken from the Message version of Hebrews 12:28-29, it obviously gave her just the preparation she needed to face this week.

"Do you see what we've got? An unshakable kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must be? Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God. For God is not an indifferent bystander. He's actively cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn, and he won't quit until it's all cleansed. God himself is Fire!"

It's really cool to see my child on fire for the God of fire. No matter what happens tomorrow and Tuesday on the volleyball court, I know that with this kind of faith, she'll be just fine!