"I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day" 2 Timothy 1:12
What a great verse, I actually just realized it was in the Bible the other day. When my children were born, we dedicated them to the Lord. I thought I had really committed them to God until hearing about the Chapman family accident regarding what happen to their daughter. It honestly shook me, then a couple weeks later another child tragedy happen to a friends friend. It broke my heart and I started to hold on the reigns a little tighter of my own children. I believe it's every mothers greatest fear is to have something happen to our children. I was holding on to this little part as if I was saying "Here God you can take care of everything but my children, I'll just take care of them". How was that faith, how was that trusting God? Well it's not, I trusted God with everything but my most precious possessions my babies. I keep hearing so many horrible children stories, If we can trust God with our children then why are these things happening to the wonderful christian families? God has been speaking to me on this issue, "How was this freedom? How can I trust him with my marriage, finances, my own life and yet not trust him with my children? Has he not been faithful?" No he has been nothing but faithful in my life and proven to me that he is trustworthy. So I got down on my knees and have truly given my children to my God. I prayed "Lord, I've tried to hold on to my children even after I gave them to You when they were born. But now I really commit them, they are in your care." With that prayer a burden has been lifted up, and I have experienced a release, but I will be honest it is sometimes a daily prayer I have to do, and sometimes it doesn't come easy, but I still do it.
Life is and will be full of inevitable adjustments. And I know one of the greatest of these is giving up our hold on our children- even to let them (gulp) go out and face life on their own, to let them experience their own pain and their own joy (Thank God He has plenty of time to keep working on me before all that really happens). But God is faithful and we can commit them to his care, knowing like I have said before he loves them even more then we do.
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