time patiently training him in Your way. Now the cruel hands of cir cumstance takes him away from me. Father, with clear conscience I can ask you now to watch over him and do with him what I am unable to do." I am sure that no mother wor ried more about her son than my mother worried about me. I was not converted until I was 17. And then four months after my conver sion I enlisted in the Air Force. How mother hated to sign those enlistment papers. But she did, trusting God to do what she could not do. Those four years in the Air Force were the time of my greatest growth simply because a mother, after doing all she could do to raise her son properly, let go and trusted God to do what she could not do. I say to you mothers of teenage children, that if you have done everything that God holds you re sponsible before Him for doing, then you should be able to com mit that child to Him and find peace. The thing that distresses and depresses mothers and robs them of peace more than anything else is the haunting feeling that all the years with that child to pre pare him for "Pharoah's house" were years wasted in self indul gence. Mother, I ask you to commit yourself again to the task of mak ing the most of your time with your children in order to avoid re grets in the years to come. Andre Bustanoby is Pastor of the Temple Baptist Church in Fuller ton, California, and a part-time As sistant Professor of Bible at Biola College. Page 19
ing the child out of the house be cause you are full of frustrations and hangups, or because he gets in the way of your living your own life. I am talking about being a firm, fair, rational, cool person who is the kind of adult a teen can admire and emulate. When the three years were up Jochebed had to turn Moses over to Pharoah's daughter (Exodus 2: 10). How would you like to have to turn your three year old over to an ungodly stranger? The Bible does not say how Jochebed felt, but she being a believer and ap plying God's word to her life and that of her children, must have prayed something like this: "God, I have done everything I know to do with this child. I have spent
Joyce McKeen, Miss Biola of 1970, gave her testimony at this year’s Coronation.
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