The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

Thirty-Eighth Day – A Faith Home
‘One cometh from the ruler’s house, saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the
Master. But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not; believe only,
and she shall be made whole.’ Luke 8: 49, 50.
Fear not; only believe! to how many thousands that word has been the
messenger of comfort and hope, as they struggled under the burden of
sin, or sought for help in trial or difficulty! It told them that there was
deliverance from fear in believing in Jesus; faith can banish fear. And
yet, how many who have found a blessing in the word have forgotten
that it is a word that especially belongs to parents. In every other use is
but a loan; it is as parents that we have full right to it. It is Jesus, the
Lord of the home, of parents and children, who speaks: ‘Fear not, only
believe.’ The word reminds of the needful double lesson: in our children
there is every reason for fear, in Jesus every reason for faith.
When we look at our children, there is every cause for fear. When we
think of the evil nature they inherit from us, and the mighty power
Satan has in this world into which they are entering, we may well fear.
When we see, both in Scripture and in the world around us, how often
the bright promise of childhood is blighted, and the children of a
religious home depart into the ways of evil and of death, we may well
fear. When we think of the dangers to which they often are exposed, in
the very nurses that surround their infancy, in the little friends of their
childhood, in the schools through which they must pass, in the spirit of
the world with which they must come into contact, in the literature and
the amusements and the business from which they cannot be kept
separate, we may well fear.
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