It is said that God has no grandchildren, and that is true; but He has a lot a wet nurses! When God called Aaron to assist Moses in delivering the children of Israel, He said to Moses, “You shall be as God to him” (Exodus 4:16). Aaron was too immature for the great responsibility, so Moses was to be his spiritual guide and stay.
Most of the time we have to see God in someone before we see God Himself. Timothy’s faith was a hand-me-down, one that he had seen operate in his grandmother, Lois, and his mother, Eunice, and now it was operating in him (2 Timothy 1:5). I do not mean that Timothy did not have to exercise personal faith; I mean that he expressed his personal faith in God when he saw that faith working in others. In shepherding Timothy, Lois and Eunice were like God to him; they were God’s wet nurses.
Roughly speaking, God’s flock can be divided into two groups: the wet nurses and the wet nursed. God’s concern is to get as many qualified wet nurses as possible, because those who need nursing are always around and always plentiful. It took God eighty years to make an assistant out of Moses; that is how highly He prizes the role. Andrew shepherded Peter, but it did not take Simon long to become a shepherd himself, so eagerly did he follow Jesus.
I cannot appoint myself a guardian, only God can do that. But I can pledge to follow the Lord “wholly,” as Caleb did, and put myself under His discipline with such rigor that He will count me approved. One thing is certain: no one ever follows the Lord without someone else watching, and often the watchers step into line and begin following too. The disciple’s great joy is that of John: “I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children waking in the truth” (3 John 4).
“But I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” (Luke 22:32).
Daily with the King 