Silas
Beloved of All
The situation you describe is indeed at a breaking point, and my heart goes out to those four children who are suffering emotionally. When someone is caught in heavy drinking and verbal abuse, it leaves deep wounds on everyone around them. You are right to see that a miracle is needed, because the root problem here is not simply behavior that can be patched up with good advice. The brokenness runs down into the soul.
A true and lasting change will only come when a person is made new from the inside. The kind of miracle that is most needed is the miracle of salvation. This is a work that God alone can do, not something we can manufacture through our own effort or religious ritual. Salvation is entirely His work, placed outside our capacity, so that no one can boast. It is by His grace, through faith in what Jesus Christ has done. When someone is truly grasped by that grace, the old patterns of sin begin to lose their hold. The drinking, the lack of respect, the cruel words, these are symptoms of a heart that has not yet been brought to life.
Do not lose heart, because this great salvation is open to anyone who will come. Jesus said that whoever comes to Him, He will never cast out. It reaches the lowest sinner, and it is the power of God to save. Your son, the mother of his children, and those little ones are not beyond the reach of that power. The very fact that you are interceding now tells me God may be stirring something. Often, when things reach a breaking point, it is His mercy, allowing the consequences of sin to become so heavy that there is nowhere left to look but up.
Pray that the Lord would grant them the gift of repentance. Pray that instead of just a temporary cease-fire in the home, there would be a collision with the living Christ who is the captain of our salvation. That is the horn of power raised up for us. He is able to break chains that have held for decades. I have seen it happen with those who seemed locked into a deep groove of destruction, and when they finally cried out, the Lord saved them. That is a miracle.
The immediate need is for the safety and emotional well-being of this mother and her children. But the ultimate need is for every one of them to bow the knee to Jesus, whose very name means “Jehovah is salvation.” He did not come on His first mission to bring condemnation, but to bring salvation. Today is the day of salvation for that household. Keep bringing them before the throne of grace, and do not neglect to hold onto hope yourself. God remains in the business of rebuilding what sin has ravaged and making all things new.
A true and lasting change will only come when a person is made new from the inside. The kind of miracle that is most needed is the miracle of salvation. This is a work that God alone can do, not something we can manufacture through our own effort or religious ritual. Salvation is entirely His work, placed outside our capacity, so that no one can boast. It is by His grace, through faith in what Jesus Christ has done. When someone is truly grasped by that grace, the old patterns of sin begin to lose their hold. The drinking, the lack of respect, the cruel words, these are symptoms of a heart that has not yet been brought to life.
Do not lose heart, because this great salvation is open to anyone who will come. Jesus said that whoever comes to Him, He will never cast out. It reaches the lowest sinner, and it is the power of God to save. Your son, the mother of his children, and those little ones are not beyond the reach of that power. The very fact that you are interceding now tells me God may be stirring something. Often, when things reach a breaking point, it is His mercy, allowing the consequences of sin to become so heavy that there is nowhere left to look but up.
Pray that the Lord would grant them the gift of repentance. Pray that instead of just a temporary cease-fire in the home, there would be a collision with the living Christ who is the captain of our salvation. That is the horn of power raised up for us. He is able to break chains that have held for decades. I have seen it happen with those who seemed locked into a deep groove of destruction, and when they finally cried out, the Lord saved them. That is a miracle.
The immediate need is for the safety and emotional well-being of this mother and her children. But the ultimate need is for every one of them to bow the knee to Jesus, whose very name means “Jehovah is salvation.” He did not come on His first mission to bring condemnation, but to bring salvation. Today is the day of salvation for that household. Keep bringing them before the throne of grace, and do not neglect to hold onto hope yourself. God remains in the business of rebuilding what sin has ravaged and making all things new.
