Letting Go

[hldude33]

“Letting Go”
Proverbs 22:6 NLT
Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.”

A year ago, my wife and I started working with our oldest daughter to learn driving when she got her permit. We spent much time working on instructing her and helping her as she learned more and more about driving rules. This past week, we took her to take her driving test for her license on her sweet 16 birthday. My wife and I waited anxiously as she was out driving with an instructor and hoping and praying she would pass. As she stepped out of the car, my wife and I walked toward her and she threw her hands in the air with an excited run and smile toward us! She passed her test and was officially licensed!

We are so proud of her, but I cannot help but to feel emotional still today as she embarks on this new adventure in her life. It is really hard for me to let go and watch my little girl grow up so fast and take on a new phase of life. I want her to learn and grow, but so much of me does not want to let go. We’ve raised her in a Christian home and have done our best to teach her God’s ways and will continue to do the best we can as she continues to grow.

As hard as it is for my wife and I to watch her drive off now by herself, we have to be reassured that God will take care of her and that we have worked hard to train her in His ways so that she makes good decisions. It’s a time of life I thought would never come and it came too fast. This passage came to mind this week as we transitioned from her having her permit to her passing her test for her driver’s license.


Friends, it can be hard to let go of many things in life. We grasp so tightly to many things and we don’t let go. We’re afraid of what we might lose or what might be ahead. It’s the unknown that scares us so often. We want control and we have a hard time trusting that God will lead and take care of things.

As I am working on letting go of my little girl into a new phase of life, I am being reminded by God that He will guide her still and take care of her as we have worked hard to train her and raise her in a Godly manner.

Whatever it is that you are finding yourself having a hard time letting go of, I encourage you to trust that God will lead and guide, whether it’s a child who has grown up into taking on more responsibilities or if it’s letting go of something you need to part with.

Letting go is hard and I will do my best. We must trust things are in God’s hands.

 

[Ancient]

This verse is totally misunderstood from its original intent. It does not mean as is often taught that if you take your child to church or Sunday school and raise them that way that when they grow old they won't depart. As we see over and over again that children that have gone to church and grow up into adulthood go off the rails so to speak and stop attending church of go of into the secular world living secular lives and they do not come back. There have been several surveys done and I don't recall the percentage but it was very high of university and college students who had a faith upon entering those institutions then denounced their belief in God.

What this verse is saying and it can only be seen in the original Hebrew text you know the language this verse was originally written in. It says through understanding the grammar that if you train up the child in their own way (i.e. their sinful fallen nature) meaning if you don't train them up in the ways of Yahweh starting from the front of the Bible as when this verse in Proverbs was written there was definitely no New Testament. That if you allow them to grow up in their own fleshy carnal nature they won't depart from that way. There are several other passages in Proverbs that has the same construction and they all relate back to the behavior of the person.

With that being said people that have gone of the rails or have not known God in their childhood, God can definitely intervene at some point in their lives and they can be redeemed. Every human being is responsible for their own lives and sin. This takes the pressure of parents who have taken the children to church all their childhood and then goes of the rails. It takes the guilt away from the parent. But if a parent has not been training their children up in the ways of God i.e. the front of the book well it will be hard for them to come to that knowledge however nothing is impossible for God. But remember this is an instruction to a believer to one who follows God not to an unbeliever or what the Bible calls at the time this was written a Gentile that would not even know of this verse at the time it was written. Bible says that it is the Father who draws all men (people) to himself.

This is one reason churches are in decline and in our western worlds eyes irrelevant for the modern age. No wonder Yahweh kept saying over and over again in the front of the book teach the commandments to your children. Teach these ways and instructions to your children as this is what would bless them and cause them to prosper and have peace in their lives. But noooo we have doctrines that are rife throughout Christianity that the Old Testament has all been done away with. Well you can always tell by the fruit and the fruit that is evident within the churches there is compromise, moral depravity, blasphemy, everyone doing what is right in their own eyes which is the basis of the wicked doctrine of men and demons that the front of the book is done away with now.

So don't teach your children in their own fleshy carnal way as it will be more difficult for them to hear and respond to God when He tries to call them and redeem them the verse in Proverbs 22:6 is an admonishment, not a positive instruction.

Shalom

 

[Jane_Doe22]

“Letting Go”
Proverbs 22:6 NLT
Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.”

A year ago, my wife and I started working with our oldest daughter to learn driving when she got her permit. We spent much time working on instructing her and helping her as she learned more and more about driving rules. This past week, we took her to take her driving test for her license on her sweet 16 birthday. My wife and I waited anxiously as she was out driving with an instructor and hoping and praying she would pass. As she stepped out of the car, my wife and I walked toward her and she threw her hands in the air with an excited run and smile toward us! She passed her test and was officially licensed!

We are so proud of her, but I cannot help but to feel emotional still today as she embarks on this new adventure in her life. It is really hard for me to let go and watch my little girl grow up so fast and take on a new phase of life. I want her to learn and grow, but so much of me does not want to let go. We’ve raised her in a Christian home and have done our best to teach her God’s ways and will continue to do the best we can as she continues to grow.

As hard as it is for my wife and I to watch her drive off now by herself, we have to be reassured that God will take care of her and that we have worked hard to train her in His ways so that she makes good decisions. It’s a time of life I thought would never come and it came too fast. This passage came to mind this week as we transitioned from her having her permit to her passing her test for her driver’s license.


Friends, it can be hard to let go of many things in life. We grasp so tightly to many things and we don’t let go. We’re afraid of what we might lose or what might be ahead. It’s the unknown that scares us so often. We want control and we have a hard time trusting that God will lead and take care of things.

As I am working on letting go of my little girl into a new phase of life, I am being reminded by God that He will guide her still and take care of her as we have worked hard to train her and raise her in a Godly manner.

Whatever it is that you are finding yourself having a hard time letting go of, I encourage you to trust that God will lead and guide, whether it’s a child who has grown up into taking on more responsibilities or if it’s letting go of something you need to part with.

Letting go is hard and I will do my best. We must trust things are in God’s hands.

Wonderful post, thank you for sharing it.