Our children really are in good hands with our heavenly Father

Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows

This has been a busy and yet also a emotional week. It has been a time of shutting doors behind us, saying goodbye to school friendships and looking beyond into the future.  As a dad it is quite easy to worry. Worry becomes ingrained along with all of the other stuff we worry about. If colleges gave a degree in worrying I would have the post graduate degree in it. 

 When I was finally able to say to God "Ok God, I give you the pain of the physical loss of my daughter" I began to worry over my son's future without knowing that God has it all planned out.  It is only  normal for parents to worry for their children. When they are young we get in our Bell Huery advance military helicopter and we hover over our son or daughter where ever they may be at the time. We get advance communication that something has gone awry in their class room and we are the first there to 'rescue' them. Many of us become master's at rescuing them.  Every school teacher in the world can write a book on the worst case of helicoptering they have seen in parents. Parents become the stumbling block for their children.

Many of us have grown up in homes with earthly father's who were ill prepared for the task of fathering and we bare the brunt of those efforts.  Whether it is some form of verbal or physical abuse, or working too much and not spending time with us when we were young many of us forget that we have a Heavenly father who can redeem the mistakes our earthly fathers have done and make things right for us. Once we discover this fact .we can lay down the controls to the Bell Huery helicopter and turn those controls to God who wants nothing but the best for his children.

None of us knows what the future beholds for any of us, nor would I even want to know if I could know it. If there is any lesson I have learned in this grief journey ( and it is a journey) it would be that God was walking with me every painful step of the way and He was walking with my son and my wife. Just as God cares about the ordinary sparrow and provides for them God truly loves our children and will provide for them.

Next time you are tempted to get into your advance Bell Huery helicopter and hover over your child please remember that we have a Father in heaven who has the experience to watch over them.  Instead of flying we could be crying out to the Lord of lords and the King of kings on behalf of our children. Our children really are in good hands with God if we give God the controls to their life.