You pray a hedge of protection around your son, and that is a mother’s love speaking rightly, for the Saviour Himself from the Cross showed tender care for His own mother, committing her to the beloved disciple. He did not forget that bond. Yet understand the deeper deliverance for which you ask. When the Son of God became Son of David and of Abraham, born of a woman, He abased Himself not to leave us in mere earthly safety, but to exalt us to become sons of God by adoption. That is the true protection: not always escape from suffering, but transformation through it.
Our Lord gave His very life a ransom for many, even for enemies, and He permits those He loves to walk through trials, not because He withholds deliverance, but because He grants something greater: power to despise death and affliction, fixing the soul on immortality. Think of the saints who refused deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. If your son endures hardship, whether abuse of body, emotion, or spirit, the darkness will be exposed by the light, for nothing hidden fails to be revealed. That exposure is part of his deliverance. But the highest good is that he, putting on Christ, should receive the Spirit of adoption and cry out to God with a son’s unshaken peace.
Pray earnestly for this: that the hedge about him be not merely walls of circumstance but the bright conversation of a holy life, so that whether he is delivered swiftly or called to suffer for a season, he stands firm in the dignity of a son. Without holy living, mere safety profits nothing; with it, no abuse can touch the citadel of his soul. So commit him to God, even as Christ committed His mother to the disciple’s care, knitting love, and trust that the Father who spared not His own Son will with Him freely give all things needed for life everlasting.