FRIDAY - 5TH JULY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
TRUST GOD AND PASS THE BATON - Your Baby Series 005
Exodus 2:10, KJV
"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water."
Jim Elliot says, "he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." In Africa or let me say ancient Africa, parenting is a community work and not the reserve of the biological parents only. I'm still on your child. Only that, I might tilt towards parenting and what your attitude should be towards passing the baton. Let your prayer as a parent from day one be, "God, raise parents for my kid at all time." You're not praying this because you lack faith that you won't see tomorrow. Rather, because separation will one day be inevitable.
Moses was forced to leave the hands of her parents. No parents living and doing well would look at a baby (a three month old) and toss him off like that. Even if the father ever solicits for such, it won't come easily to the mother who'll still be filled with the memory of the birth pangs. On this basis, such child is therefore not easily yielded up. However, Moses had to leave her parents' hands and eventually their home. He had to be 'casted off'. He had to be tossed to another. He had to go away and painfully as a child. Your own might need to grow into an adolescent before that fat is shed but one thing is sure, he or she will fly. A bird is born to fly and not remain in its nest. Or, do you wish for a child to retain and nurse all your life? You got the message.
Be willing when it's the divine time to release the rein and let your child go. The call of destiny will arrive for each child differently at their time. There are children who won scholarships to travel out of the country and far away from their parents even while just Junior Secondary School students. Samuel didn't reach that age before he was boarded away to live with Eli. So, it might be your child's turn and his destiny to leave early to the academy or a definite place of destiny coaching. Joseph also had to walk this road. He was forcefully cut off from his loving dad and home. Yet, all in preparation for the manifestation of God's plan for him. Not knowing when this call might call, it's your responsibility to build structure in your child very early. It'll include teaching the concept and existence of God, faith in Jesus and ensuring their personal salvation, gender definition and its perversion, ethics and morals, self identity and esteem, patriotism for fatherland and pride in one's origin, people and culture.
One major thing that's difficult for parents to do is to let the ship of their children sail. They feel a kind of loss letting them go and though it might be hard to bear, you shall find them back. They'll be like bread cast on the water that shall be found many days hence (Eccl. 11:1) and a seed of corn sown that will assuredly bring forth plentifully (John 12:24).
I might as well pronounce as I just perceived that God is sending adopting parents before some of you. For whatsoever reason for which your son or daughter needs to be beloved, shown kindness or tender love, spoken or advocated for, God will raise mouth to speak and hands to bear him up (even in a strange land). God raised a parent for Moses. He was adopted when his parents from a clear conscience were forced to abandon him. At day's end, the testimony coming from this act is, "and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds" (Acts 7:22). Imagine! Look at the good education he received through adoption. God needed to familiarize him with the court and system He'll later send him to resist also. As such, God sent him ahead.
Adoption is not always evil when it is an initiation of the Lord. It always has a happy ending. Upon separation from your kids, either on daily basis when you leave them at the creche or wherever, God will find parents for them even in their teachers. Such parents are those who'll jealous for them with your jealousy. They'll care for them like you will do. Sunday school teachers, creche carers, nannies, caring relatives, grandparents etc are those who need to be rightly filled with an adoption spirit because it is in their company your child will spend time. Is it his time for enrollment in school? Send him and let him be properly adopted and mentored. Don't slacken the ride for him or he might experience delayed manifestation. I pray for your kid, he'll find men to receive him in every time of need.
PRAYER: Lord, shed light on the path of this one (lay hand on your child) and find him/her parents other than we his parents when he's in dire need of one.
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