How presumptious I have been. I have been assuming in the back of my mind for so long that God needed my help... here was my conversation with Him on the way home last night...
God - I just want to have all of them at home with me - every girl deserves to know how much they are worth! I want to love on them and show them how loved they are!
and whose to say that is what I'd want you to do?
Of course it is!
can you keep them forever? who... now think about this... who will be the one to sustain them for the rest of their days? Who knows their innermost being? Who knows their purpose, their potential? Who is the only one that they can - must - learn to fall on and call to and seek?
Oh gosh. How dumb of me!
you can show them the way, walk with them for a while, but your task is to give them a firm foundation so that they can learn to walk with me. on their own. just them and me. her and I. show her how much I care by caring yourself. teach. disciple. the goal is for her to grow away and stand firm unassisted. her and I.
that makes sense. how misplaced my intentions have been... thinking i just want to keep any hurting soul and l0ve them myself. that I would be able to fix them. they don't need me for that! but i can help. i can be a conduit for God's amazing love and grace. His power to transform and to sustain. i can assist in the building of a firm foundation. one that is upon a rock and rooted in the waters of life, which flow freely from our amazing Father.
