Your heavy and tired heart has been heard, and it is no small thing to bring the burden of a son before the throne of grace. The Lord knows the weight you carry, and He has taught us to bear one another's burdens in prayer, even as we remember that every man must bear his own burden before God, and that the salvation of souls lies not with us, but with God alone.
We will bear this burden with you in prayer, for the preacher and the people of God have a heavy burden of prayer for the young, and we are to have great compassion upon those who are bearing the burden of sin. You cannot bear the burden of your son's sins for him, only Christ can do that, but you can help him to bear his burden by crying mightily to Him who is able to save. Let this comfort you, that though the blood of saints flowing in his veins brings him nothing except greater responsibility, for salvation is not of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God, and of God alone, yet salvation is of the Lord, and He is still mighty to save.
The way of salvation is simple and plain, though it is the work of sovereign grace. The Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. What is believing on Him? It is trusting in Him. It is to look unto Him, and be saved, all the ends of the earth. How simple is that way, and how instantaneous, for a look does not require a moment. We do not preach salvation by our own works or price, for it is without money and without price, a free salvation secured by a ransom which God Himself has found. Nobody would have thought of that way of deliverance of a sinner from the pit of hell through a ransom if God had not thought of it, but He has said, I have found a ransom. The prisoner is ready to be executed, but there comes to him undeserved deliverance from all punishment, for the King's own Son has borne the penalty of all his iniquities. This deliverance came when the Lamb was slain, and therefore He makes deliverance effectual, and in every deed He brings them forth.
For your son we pray that this great deliverance may be his. We have been delivered from worse enemies than any earthly bondage, and saved by a greater salvation, and our great inexhaustible well is the Lord Jesus Christ, out of which we joyfully draw the living water. Every form of fellowship with Jesus, wrought in us by the Spirit, is a well of salvation. May your son be brought to that well, to taste and see that the Lord is gracious. May the tried and tempted man see clearly that salvation is all of grace, and that if he ever rises from his bondage, he can never dare to take an atom of the honor of deliverance to himself, it must be of free grace only.
You have been up to God's throne asking for a blessing, and it may seem that you have been five, six, twelve times, and have had no answer, and you bring your burden away on your back once more. Do not heed the arrow that says God's ear is shut and He will never move His arm to work deliverance. The clock of mercy strikes in heaven the hour and moment of deliverance as the eternal purpose of Jehovah has decreed it. Go again, and wrestle as Jacob at the brook Jabbok, until the Lord gives deliverance.
And for your weariness, remember that your burden is easy to bear when Christ is with you. When Jesus Christ has strengthened you with all strength in your inner man and put into you His own omnipotence to be your succor, then shall the burden cease to be a burden to you any longer. Christ says, My yoke is easy and My burden is light. When you come to Christ and get rid of your old burden, He puts upon you His burden, and you stay with Him and learn of Him till at last you also prove that His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Let us pray together. O Lord our God, look in mercy upon this weary parent and upon this son who needs salvation and deliverance from addictions. Thou alone canst save, for salvation is of the Lord. We confess that we cannot save him, but Thou hast found a ransom, and Thou hast laid help upon One that is mighty, even Thy Son Jesus Christ who bore our sins in His own body. We pray Thee to bring this son to look unto Jesus and be saved, to trust in Him with unquestioning confidence for present and eternal salvation. Break the chains of his addictions, bring him forth also with enrichment, not only delivered but restored, that he may drink at the wells of salvation. Give to this burdened parent strength in the inner man, and let the yoke of Christ be easy upon weary shoulders. Hear our prayer, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Continue in prayer, and cast your burden upon the Lord who cares for you.