With You God I Am Strong

The hardest battle parents of a wounded child face is taking some of their focus off the child and putting it on themselves.  God brought this child into your life for a purpose but that purpose is not solely about the child, that is not how God works.  His plan also includes working on you through the child to bring about your own healing and growth.   

Your plan is for your wounded child to heal and have a satisfying and productive life.  God wants that for your child too but He also has a plan for you.  

Every adverse experience God allows His children to go through is an opportunity for growth and healing.  Moses was to lead the people out of Egypt and into the promise land.  While God was working on changing the (behaviors) hearts and minds of the Egyptians, He was also working on changing the heart and mind of Moses, something that had to be done before the plan could be fulfilled.  I am sure Moses would have picked a different plan for fulfilling God's promise and at times he tried to talk God out of His plan but God's plan was multi-focused.  He didn't just want to bring the people into the promise land but to heal and prepare Moses and His people for the things to come and a closer relationship with Him.  

Are you open to expanding your plan and focus on changing your child to include changing yourself?  Are you standing in the way of God's plan  because of your ego, dismissing the help God has provided and having an unwillingness to look inside yourself and what God wants to change about you?   Are you so fearful of being hurt that you are shutting off your own heart and attempting to take control away from God, just as your child did to protect his/her heart?  

God's plan is much bigger than yours.  Isaiah 55:8 "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.