birthday boo

Today is a day of celebration in the Davidson home. My wonderful wife turns double 3’s today. This past year has been a wonderful outpouring of God’s abundance grace on her life and blessing her son and husband and many others.

I wanted to publicly encourage my lovely wife for how she has embraced God’s call(s) on her life. She is a wonderful helper, mother, and wife. I’d like to encourage her from a few scriptures.

First as a mother.
1 Timothy 2:15 says, “Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.” I’ve heard a recent commentary on this passage that offered a biblical insight into this oft misunderstood verse. Please excuse a little theological digression…

There are 3 aspects to our salvation – justification, sanctification, and glorification. Justification happens at the moment we place our faith in our Savior and his righteousness is imputed to us and our sinfulness is placed on him when he died on the cross for us.

Sanctification is everything after justification and before glorification. Let’s look to glorification for a moment. Glorification is the moment when we see Christ face to face and as John says in 1 John, “we will be like Him when we see Him as he is”.

So in between justification and glorification is the ongoing process, sanctification. According to the commentator and I believe would an accurate exegesis of this passage that this refers to aspect of sanctification in God’s great plan of salvation. William has been a wonderful gift. While we’re fairly sure he’s the cutest kid in the world and we couldn’t imagine a bigger blessing, he is primarily here to bring God glory and sanctify his mama & dada. So it has been great to watch Amy grow through her mothering of William. By God’s grace, I’ve seen wonderful growth in Amy and her joy in this task has been abundant.


As a wife.
Proverbs 31:10 asks An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. I am happy I can say I am a man who can answer that question. I have found an excellent wife. She is a wonderful encouragement, graciously compassionate and brings her husband so much joy. When I am in my weakest moment, she is always in her strongest. Jesus told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in your weakness.” When I am at he bottom end of the scale of weakness, Jesus’ loving grace works mightily through my wife.
Thank you, Boo. I hope this day is a blessing for you.