1 samuel 1:11
It is easier to give your child back to the Lord if you understand from the beginning that they aren’t yours to keep. Hannah was committed to the covenant of motherhood before she ever had a child.
But it is not impossible to gather your faith and turn your children over to God in later years. You are His chosen steward for the children He has given you.
The greatest tragedy is that many mothers end up with resentful children who fell smothered and angry because they are made feel guilty for growing up. Preserve what you have your children by allowing the relationship to change in your hand.
The caterpillar has been fed in the cocoon of your teaching and has come for forth a butterfly. It will never of its again Wings there is a tribute to the cocoon that permitted the grace of change.
Your authority will change. You move from the role of diaper-changer, decision-maker and discipline-enforcer to confidante, cheerleader, and champion. That is not promoting disrespect but development. If you respect yesterday’s child and recognize that he has become today’s adult, he will always love you for your tremendous contribution to that independence.
One of the greatest challenges to this adjustment is redefining boundaries. During this time children must learn to practice independence without being disrespectful. Young people will blunder through the transition from Barbie dolls to beauty shops, from the go-carts to the golf course. But didn’t most of us stumble into destiny? Children cannot exist as extensions of their parents.
Look at Luke 2:51, 52 Jesus returned home with His mother and continued to submit to her. But the Scriptures say that from that time He increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. He did not disassociate from His mother, whose loyalty followed Him all the way to the Cross.
Although their roles changed for her continued even to His thirty-third year and the final moments of His life. She was still His mother!
Source: T.D. Jakes
