GOD HAS YOUR BACK, OH, YEAH!

A few days ago, I attended a celebration of the life of one of my 6^th grade student’s father. Mr. Taylor had died of a heart attack in his sleep, and his son Jessie had found him the next morning. Gratefully, he had not recognized at that time that his dad was dead. Jessie thought he was just sleeping late.

This celebration was a time for family and friends to gather and speak to the group about memories or any thing that was on their minds. Mr. Aden had played professional basketball with Mr. Taylor's brother, and he told about the day of his own transfer away from that team. Mr. Aden  had been very upset and frustrated about being moved. He didn’t want to leave his teammates.

Mr. Aden went on to tell about the conversation he had with Mr. Taylor about the transfer. Mr Taylor had looked at him and told him everything would work out ok. “God has your back, oh yeah!” he said. Mr. Aden said a feeling of peacefulness came over him at that moment, and he knew that it would all work out just fine.

The speaker remembered how much those words had meant to him. When he told this celebration group about it, he added that he knew his friend would say now, that God has all of our backs while we are grieving about the death. It was comforting to know that Mr. Taylor didn’t need God to have his back now. He was WITH God, but we could be assured that He would “have our backs” at any time we needed Him.

Thank you, God, for “having our backs, oh yeah!”

Dr. Morich