I know, Lord, that a person’s life is not his own. No one is able to plan his own course. Jeremiah 10:23~ NLTOver the years I was not encouraged to make friends. These things, for the most part, were off limits to me and out of my hands. I did not have the opportunity to plot my own course and yet God has an ordained planned for my life and all children.
His plan to have them live in a loving home and go through an order of progress designed to lead them into adulthood. First they will be totally dependent upon their parents to supply their needs. Next they will go through a period where they can explore and play and know some of the simply joys that this life has to offer. Next comes adolescence that is sometimes painful as children are going through the transition to adulthood.
Man has been given free will and many times he chooses not to follow God’s ordained path. That ‘free will’ is a blessing as well as a curse depending on how we use it. Because of their parents choices and failure to provide a loving home where they can be nurtured and grow in adult ...innocent children pay a high price.
What is a fully grown child to do who may be still struggling to grow up in this kind of atmosphere?
Once while giving a partial testimony on my healing up to this point (this was prior to my full healing), I was talking about how I had lost my parents and my memory. Then I had said something that startled even me because I had not realized that early on in life exactly the full extent of what I was doing. The words that had come out of my mouth was me saying ,”Well, God I guess that right now I am nobody’s child so you will just have to become a Father to me.” Being so young and not having spiritual insights I did not realize that when I had been asking God for help to see me through this I was putting God in my life and asking Him to become my Father.
Psalms 68:5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
God has promised to do that and be a father to the fatherless. For those of you who are not orphans than here another scripture.
Psalms 27:10 When my father and mother forsake me, than the Lord will take me up.
When you feel that your parents have forsaken you then the Lord will become a Father to you. God cares so very much for children and He knew that He would have to step in and become a Father to these abused and hurting children. God’s care for me was there in so many ways although some times at this point I did not have the spiritual eyes to see it. For example sometimes when things get really bad God has placed within you a point where you block out a lot of the pain until later when you start to deal with it.
In my own case years later someone told me that God showed them that during all those years of abuse I was like a little tea pot and ready to really blow and lose it but God was hovering over me and coating the tea pot over and over to protect me from losing it all together.
So if you are in a place where you were or are being abused ask God to start being a Heavenly Father to you for He is the best Father of all.
Until Next Time, Gracie
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