Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Thursday 02/04/10)

Never Weaned From The Breast…

Psalm 131:1-3 (Amplified Bible)

^1[a]LORD, MY heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in matters too great or in things too wonderful for me.

²Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me [ceased from fretting].

³O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever.

For years I have heard the phrase “mama’s boy,” attached to certain young men that I had encountered or that friends of mine had encountered. All things being fair I have seen my fair share of “mama’s little diva’s,” as well. These children grow up with a sense of entitlement and never really learning to work or seek God for themselves. They are dependant upon their mama’s, for even their relationship with Christ. We live in a society that glorifies a thirty something year old that lives in his parent’s basement and where he is still taken care of by his parents, but it is his mother that has the most input into his life and his life choices. What a sad state of affairs, what a sad example of what we as a nation have become. It use to be that kids were holding on to their parents, now we are finding that parents (mothers especially) are holding on to their children, crippling them and treating them as if they have never weaned them from being nursed.

I am finding mothers taking their position one step too far and relying on their children for everything. Now we are not talking about children that are in High school we are talking about grown children that should have the strength and fortitude to stand on their own two feet, but are crippled by their mothers. In some of cases, grown children will not even make a move without feeling that they have the okay of their mothers. They are more married to their mothers than to their own spouse, in some of the worse case mothers are running house holds that they do not even live in, and children are adhering to their mothers over their spouses.

A mother is always that a mother, she is special because of the job she is entrusted to do, but it is when that position becomes skewed that the life of child is affected in the worst way. A mother’s job is a precious and revered position…It is one of guidance and instruction, but there comes a time in every child’s life that a mother should realize that the child is no longer a child; and that the gift God entrusted her with is really not hers. She was called to be a steward in their lives for a time. When that child becomes an adult God should be the one to have the say over their lives even beyond what momma has to say. It is not our place to imprison our child because of what we didn’t do when they were younger or what we lack in your own lives. God is our source not man and not even our children. So many of us “mommy’s” are blocking our children from spreading their wings because we are scared of being alone, or scared of losing control. But it is time to let go and let God have His way in our lives and the lives of our children.

Today it is time to wean our children off the breast and teach them how to chew, swallow and eat meat; letting them stand on their own two feet. For many of us we are long over do to let God be our true Savior and not our children. We need to stop looking to our children to make our lives what it is, instead let God make our lives what it needs to be. We need to stop restraining our children from a life of their own, and get a life of our own, through Christ Jesus the one that can truly set us free. It is high time to wake up and smell the coffee and let our children become the men or women that God had ordained for them to become even before the foundation of the world, or before they were even a twinkle in your eye or a thought in your mind, they were known by God.