Your prayer for your son rises from a mother's heart, and that is no small thing. Yet consider how much more the Father loves him, having spared not His own Son to make your child His own. The hedge you seek is not a wall to keep out every trial, but the very presence of Christ Himself, who endured far more than abuse: He bore the cross. When you see your son suffer, do not think God is absent.
Even the Son learned obedience through what He suffered, and He is not ashamed to call us brothers. Do you wish your son to be delivered from every evil? Then pray first that he be conformed to the image of the Son, for that is the great deliverance, the promotion to sonship. The angels indeed are ministering spirits, sent forth to serve those who will inherit salvation.
They excel in strength and hearken to the voice of His word. But they are not the remedy; they are servants of the Heir. It is a greater thing to have Christ as brother than to have angels as guardians. Therefore, instead of asking merely that darkness be exposed, ask that your son's own heart become light in the Lord.
For what profit is it if the deeds of others are brought to light, but his own soul remains in the shadow of fear and despair? God often permits tribulation precisely to drive us to that blessed poverty of spirit where we cling to nothing but Him. If He delivers from sickness by the knife, grieve not at the cutting, for the Physician is at work. You ask for peace and strength.
These come not by the absence of conflict, but by the presence of the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father." Let your son learn to glory in this: that God treats him as a son. This is the glory that made the apostles rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name. The unseen things are eternal. The Lord knows those who are His.
Do not fear what man can do unto the body, but fear Him who can cast both body and soul into hell. This holy fear is the beginning of a wisdom that stands unmoved amid all earthly storms. Continue your prayer, but let it be transformed. Ask not just for a hedge around your son, but that he may be a faithful soldier within it, putting on the whole armor of God, that he may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
This is the true protection: to be found in Christ, not having our own righteousness, but that which is through faith. The angels who excel in strength do His commandments, hearkening to the voice of His word. One word from the Master, and they are a flame of fire. How much more will they serve the heirs of salvation, those who have put on Christ?
Your son’s safety is not in a life free from wounds, but in the resurrection of the dead. Look to the end. The Son of Man shall send His angels at the harvest, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend. Then shall the righteous shine forth.
Until that day, comfort your heart with this: the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. 
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