The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

was meant to be — the picture, the promise, the pathway, to the
Father’s home in heaven.
Dear parents! shall we not ask our Lord Jesus most earnestly to open
our minds to take in His Divine thoughts about the heavenliness of our
children, to open our eyes to see Him in them, to bring our hearts into
perfect sympathy with Himself, so that our little ones may day by day be
the blessed messengers that lead us to heaven, that bring to us Jesus
Himself, the life and the light of heaven?
Blessed Lord! open our ears to hear what You speak, and our eyes to see
as You see. Give us hearts to beat in sympathy with Yours at the sight of
every little child; and above all, our Lord, to understand and experience
how surely and how blessedly You fulfill Your promise, `Whosoever
receives one such little child in My name, receives Me.’
Lord Jesus! we do ask You for a childlike spirit. May the simplicity and
restfulness, the love and the loveliness, the trustfulness and
truthfulness, of the child-nature so dwell in us, that in communion
with us the heavenly childlikeness of our little ones may not be lost, but
cherished and maintained through advancing years. Give us to feel very
deeply that we cannot truly fulfill our parental calling except as in
simplicity and godly sincerity our walk with God be that of little
children.
Blessed Lord! we do thank You that, however feeble we be, and however
far short our attainments fall of what we should be, in receiving a child
in Your name we receive You. You come Yourself to be our Teacher and
our Helper. We pray You to strengthen us and all parents in this faith,
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