Lessons From an Easy Baby

God has bestowed many blessings upon my wife and me. One of the most amazing and terrifying blessings to me was becoming a father. Our son Asher is almost 8 months old now. It has been a fun and adventurous 8 months. It was about 10 months ago when I was doing a study on Psalm 1 that the name Asher popped out to me. Psalm 1:1 says “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.” The Hebrew word for Blessed comes from Asher, which means Blessed or Happy. We know that God has blessed us with our happy son Asher. He is the smiliest baby I have ever seen. He is happy and easy going almost all the time. We knew that when he first smiled when he was not even a week old that it was a real smile, not just a face he was making. When I heard him first laugh around a month old, that really blessed me. He is happy and doesn’t get fussy unless he is hungry, sleepy, or has woken up and can’t seem to go back to sleep. He just wants to let us know that he needs food or sleep. There have been only a handful of times where he fussed or cried for no aparent reason. I have heard many “horror” stories of babies crying throughout the night or not napping and various other things where the moms are pulling out their hair trying to figure out what their babies need. I am so thankful that Asher is who he is and I think that as I was studying Psalm 1, God purposefully showed me the root of Blessed because He knew everything about Asher long before my wife or I were even born. How Asher acts with my wife and I is a perfect picture of how we should act with our Heavenly Father. 1 Peter 2:2 says "Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation." Peter is telling us that we need to be like a baby and long for the milk so we can grow closer to Him. Asher tells us his needs, like sleep or milk, and that is how he is able to grow. We shouldn’t be distracted by all the wants of our live, we should focus on what we truly need. The way we grow closer to God is by giving Him our needs. He is willing to provide for us, all we have to do is cry out to Him just as Asher cries out to us when he needs something. We must have that need to hunger and thirst for God so we can grow closer to Him and become the person of God that we are intended to be.