Burdens

Psalm 55: 22

Give your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.

Matthew 11: 28-30

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

The burden that has weighed most heavily on me through the years has been my children. Before they were conceived and born I had given them back to the Lord, His having shown me back then that He would only lend them to me for a time, to prepare them for eternity with Him. 

But I have often taken them back and tried to make them righteous in my own strengths and abilities. This has proved to me to have been unprofitable and even harmful to them. 

Now that they are adults, I realize that they are out of my hands, and are now directly responsible and accountable to God, not me. 

O my Father, thank You so much for each one of my children. Please keep me out of the way of Your dealing with them and working on them. They belong to You, Father, they always did. Please make Yourself real in their understandings and sensibilities. Draw each of them ever closer to Yourself and bless them. 

And thank You also, Father, for the grandchildren You have given me through them. Help me, guide me, and teach me how to be a good grandma to each of them, as each one is so different from every other. As Jesus dealt with different people with different approaches and methods, show me how to be a good influence in each of their lives, considering how You have formed each one.

Father, You are such a good, good Father to us. Thank You for all You have done for me and mine. Teach us how to respond to Your workings in our lives the way You desire, walking in the path You have set each of our feet upon. Show Your light before each step, showing all the pitfalls and stumbling stones so we can avoid them, and I know You will not let go of our hands, to keep us from slipping off into a ditch on the right-hand or on the left.

And may You receive all the credit, all the glory, for everything You are doing in our lives, our societies and our World on this beautiful Earth.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!