The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

parents, to do what made them the channels of a Divine blessing to
their children.
And so still the power to understand God’s purpose with our children,
to save our household, to obey God’s will in all its rule, to offer our
children to God, to bless our sons, and to save them from the destroyer,
depends upon our faith. The living Christ, in whom is our salvation and
our strength, every needed blessing and grace for us and our children —
it is He who speaks, ‘Only believe.’ It is in the knowledge of what He is,
it is in His presence, that such a faith is possible and must prevail. Has
He not, if we are indeed His, redeemed our children as well as ourselves
from the power of sin? Has He not come to make the covenant of
promise, `thy God and the God of thy house,’ a brighter and fuller
reality than ever it was to Abraham? Has He not secured for us, in the
Holy Spirit, a power from on high to fulfill every obligation that rests on
us as God’s children, this one, too, of keeping our children for Him to
whom we belong? Has He not made true all the promises given of old,
of God’s Spirit upon our offspring, of God’s Word not departing from
the mouth of our seed’s seed for evermore, in that one word on the day
of Pentecost, `the promise is to you and to your children’? Can we not
count upon Him to give for us and each child just what we need, if only
we believe?
`Only believe:’ let us take the command literally; faith has never yet
been disappointed. Living faith will teach us to see new beauty and
preciousness in our children. Living faith will awaken in us new
earnestness and desire in everything to hold and to train them for God
alone. Living faith will give its own hopeful and confiding tone to all
our relation with God for them, and all our relation with them too. The
name of ‘Faith Home’ has been appropriated to certain special
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