I have had the privilege of sharing in DTS’s (Youth With A Mission’s Discipleship Training Schools) over the last several years about the “mothering love of God”. It has been wonderful to see a light dawn in eyes of students and they begin to comprehend God loves them like a Father and a Mother. He intended us to have both. It is healthy to have both…..physically, emotionally and spiritually. When one is lacking, we lack. We don’t get “enough” in our childhood (due to dysfunction, divorce, wounding, etc.) and it can carry through into adulthood if God Himself has not been given the space to come in and fill the need.
Psalm 131:2
Several months ago as I looked out my window at a breathtaking dawn breaking, I felt peaceful, satisfied. Weaning means to be satisfied, your needs met. I have enough.
This year I took on my “word” RELEASE for 2016. I began 2016 with a sense of God releasing new things into our lives, mainly with how we give out in our ministry and serving others, New adventures, new stories of sharing. But way back in January, I began to also sense “release” meant ME releasing some things into God’s hands so He could then “release” into my life.
One area I seem to always be letting go has been the releasing of the lives of my children into His hands. He carries them. He will lead them. He knows them better than I do. Really? Can that be?? Yes, releasing our loved ones into His care is the best thing I can do. But releasing is not always easy. Even the releasing of comfortable, daily, life can and will bring freshness and new adventure if we are willing to release what is normal for us or things we hide behind. In prayer, speaking out and giving over to God those things that are good.....really good.....(maybe some not so good)....but by releasing them to God, He sets us free to receive new gifts from Him. Don't we always want a new present to open?
One thing I love (and can be unsettling and challenging at times) in our relationship with God is we are never to old to grow and learn. As I gaze at a rising dawn, and read my devotional for the day….it reminds me that God always goes before me. Never leads me into situations that He is not fully aware of the needs of what I will be facing. He is before me. Beside me. Next to me. Behind me. AND He gives PEACE. It was His first words to His disciples after the resurrection. Peace I give you. Do not be afraid. He knew we needed to hear that. He said it a lot! Even sent angels to tell us.
As I wait in the presence of my Father, He impresses on my mind that weaning can be something that takes place even in the oldest of us. I am 60. I have walked with the Lord for 42 years. And today, I continue to be “weaned”. I think I have enough…but He wants to give me more. Continually moving away from the “bottle” and into deeper, richer, real food. Even after all these years, He wants to wean me from the comfortable. The familiar. He wants to give me “flavored milk”, beyond the white. I have enough, but He wants to give me more. Will I trust Him to continually wean me….trust Him as I release, He gives back more than I could imagine? Will I trust Him? Can I love someone or something possibly so much that He would want me to “release it into His hands” so He can turn around and give me so much more?
Psalm 34:8
Genesis 16: 13-14 (Amplified Version)
John 20:19
Colossians 3:15
Psalm 139:7-12
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