Psalms 42
Are you a hurting mother today? Does your heart ache over
your children? Do you want only good things for them? Are you praying they will
grow to love Jesus more than they care for their next breath? I am and I
do. I hope this comes at a time where it
encourages you. I want you to know you are not alone. As mothers, we tend to
hide behind a façade when it comes to our children. What will my friend think
if I told her what my daughter or son did last night? She will think I’m a
horrible mom. We keep secrets about our
children because we feel they bring shame to us and we become so concerned what
others around us will think. We are a loving, blessed Christian family and my
children just don’t do certain things and if they do, then no one needs to
know. I’ve been there and yes, I’m still
there.
There are things I would never tell another because doesn’t
your child’s behavior really reflect you? I had always felt that. I felt my
child’s behavior must be something I’ve done or didn’t do. Because they did
this then it had to be because I wasn’t doing devotions enough with them, I
wasn’t praying enough with or for them. Maybe we aren’t the loving Christian
family I thought we were. These are all lies of the enemy. God help us, as
mothers, to not believe these lies about us and our children. John
10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 8:44 “the devil….he is the father of
lies.” The enemy knows who I belong to and his greatest joy seems to be
confusing my children on who they belong to.
1 John 4:4 “You, dear children, are from God and
have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who
is in the world.”
I’m
not sure why we hide and try to figure it out alone. 1 John 3:20 “If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.”
We need one another. We need
loved ones and friends to come along side us and pray with us. It is then, when
you have an army behind you, that God pours out his power, unleashes the
heavens, and does the impossible. May we not hide any longer, but gather our
army of prayer warriors and break the chains that so easily entangle our young
ones today.
Our kids are the most precious gift God has given us. Psalms 127:3 “Children
are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him.” They
are truly His to begin with. I believe with all my heart I have done all I
could do and I am doing all I can do. Sometimes that is only being on my knees,
unable to speak because my heart is so heavy, tears that cannot seem to stop flowing.
Then I see Him, Jesus, my dearest friend, who loves me with unconditional love reaches
down and says “Child, I hear your prayers. I love you and I love your little
ones. I watch over them day and night. I see their mistakes, their tears, and
their struggles. They remember your words that you have spoken to them, they
have not forgotten.” Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.”
I also believe that as we raise our children that it isn’t
necessarily when they are old that will remember how they were brought up or
what they were taught but even as they are still growing. I have to believe
with all my heart what I have taught my kids is somewhere in their soul, that
will ring loud in their heads as they face difficult times. I pray God bring to remembrance all they’ve
learned. As parents, we certainly want
to be the fly on the wall, we want to be there every second of their lives but
we can’t. There is a time to let go and trust the Lord more than we’ve ever had
to trust Him before. It is really that moment that becomes the hardest. It has
been the hardest for me. It’s in those
times when we can’t be there they will for sure stumble and fall. Then, we can
come along side them, as their biggest fan, cheering them on to rise again and
overcome.
I have to get past what others think, or how they think I’m
raising my kids or how I should have raised them. I’m doing the best I can,
aren’t we all? We do our best, give them to the Lord, and persevere in prayer
for them and never stop loving them. If
you are feeling discouraged as a mother or disappointed in some way, take heart
my dear one, there is always someone on your side, gently lifting your head,
wiping your tears and saying, I will never leave you or forsake you. You are not
alone.
Will stand with me and pray for my children? Will you put your hope in God with me today? I will pray for
yours and together we will walk this journey of motherhood chanting Joshua 24:15 "....as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
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