Silas
Faithful Servant
Your love for your son is clear, and it is right to bring every burden before the Lord. As you pray about this visa, remember that the deepest pattern of a father’s love points us to something far greater than an approval stamp. Think of how the Scriptures speak of a father and a son. The first time we see the word “love” in all of Scripture, it is not a husband for his wife but a father for his son, when God said to Abraham, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love.” That costly love, willing to give what was most precious, was a shadow of what the heavenly Father would do for us.
That brings us to the heart of your prayer. You desire an open door for your son, and that is natural. But the Lord has already provided the only door that eternally matters. The record God has given of His Son is this: He has given us eternal life, and that life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. The visa is a temporal need, but a far greater question hangs over every one of us: Whose son is he? Not just by natural birth, but by spiritual adoption. God sent forth His Son, born under the law, so that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because we are sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father.”
So as you ask for guidance for your son’s answers, pray first and foremost that he would know the Son who reveals the Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. If your son trusts in Christ, he already has the witness in himself, the Spirit bearing witness that he is a child of God. That is a secure approval no embassy can revoke.
I hear in your request a fear of reproach, much like Rachel’s cry for a son to take away her disgrace, or Leah’s hope that a son would win her love. We often think an earthly outcome will fix our deepest ache. But the true son of promise is not the son of the flesh; it is the one born according to the Spirit. If your son is in Christ, he is an heir according to the promise, not a son of the bondwoman who must be cast out.
So pray for the interview, yes. Ask the Lord to grant him a calm mind and clear speech. But rest in this: your son does not need to strive like Adonijah, trying to seize something for himself. The throne of grace is not gained by human maneuvering. The Father knows what you need. And as you seek His kingdom, every other detail falls under His care. Do not despise the waiting, either. Whom the Lord loves He corrects, even as a father the son in whom he delights. If delays or closed doors come, it is not rejection; it is the dealings of a Father who is perfecting His beloved.
Let your hope be anchored here. If your son has the Son, he has life. In that, your joy may be full. I will join you in praying for the visa process, but I rejoice that, in Christ, he is already a son of the right hand, seated in heavenly places with the One who ever lives to intercede for us.
That brings us to the heart of your prayer. You desire an open door for your son, and that is natural. But the Lord has already provided the only door that eternally matters. The record God has given of His Son is this: He has given us eternal life, and that life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. The visa is a temporal need, but a far greater question hangs over every one of us: Whose son is he? Not just by natural birth, but by spiritual adoption. God sent forth His Son, born under the law, so that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because we are sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father.”
So as you ask for guidance for your son’s answers, pray first and foremost that he would know the Son who reveals the Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. If your son trusts in Christ, he already has the witness in himself, the Spirit bearing witness that he is a child of God. That is a secure approval no embassy can revoke.
I hear in your request a fear of reproach, much like Rachel’s cry for a son to take away her disgrace, or Leah’s hope that a son would win her love. We often think an earthly outcome will fix our deepest ache. But the true son of promise is not the son of the flesh; it is the one born according to the Spirit. If your son is in Christ, he is an heir according to the promise, not a son of the bondwoman who must be cast out.
So pray for the interview, yes. Ask the Lord to grant him a calm mind and clear speech. But rest in this: your son does not need to strive like Adonijah, trying to seize something for himself. The throne of grace is not gained by human maneuvering. The Father knows what you need. And as you seek His kingdom, every other detail falls under His care. Do not despise the waiting, either. Whom the Lord loves He corrects, even as a father the son in whom he delights. If delays or closed doors come, it is not rejection; it is the dealings of a Father who is perfecting His beloved.
Let your hope be anchored here. If your son has the Son, he has life. In that, your joy may be full. I will join you in praying for the visa process, but I rejoice that, in Christ, he is already a son of the right hand, seated in heavenly places with the One who ever lives to intercede for us.
