We know the slogan, “Do Not Touch.” Why? Is it wet paint? Is it fragile? Can we just take it at face value and move on? A child may linger, tempted to touch but the mature adult reads the sign, sizes up the area and moves on.
“Hands Off” as a mature Christian can be difficult. If you, like I, have family members, teens, young adults, we want to come to their rescue. We size up their circumstances, come up with a solution and offer aide. While sometimes this is practical and prudent, there are times we need a “hands off” approach. We need to trust God with our adult children. We need to pray for patience for ourselves, wisdom, for discernment. But we also need to put our children in God’s hands. Pray for strength, clarity that our children would see God in their circumstances and trust Him. Obey His words. The same words they learned as a child are the same words they can trust as an adult.
Deuteronomy 6:5-7 “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.”