The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

separated from the world, its spirit and its service; consecrated to God,
His Spirit, and His will.
It is as we begin to understand the word, `Your children are holy,’
clearly, that we shall know to apply it rightly. We shall find it a word of
great power in our dealings both with God and with our children. With
God it will be the strength of our prayer and faith. We shall feel liberty
to claim that we be not sent away with a mere possibility, a promise
without fulfillment, a covenant right without a personal experience.
No. We may be sure that when our children are called holy, all that is
implied in the word holy is meant for them. As we study the wonderful
word in the story of Israel, in the character of God, in the person of
Jesus, in the work of the Spirit of holiness, we shall find in God’s `Your
children are holy’ the assurance that it is all for them. As we plead for
the conversion of our children, we shall say with holy boldness, Have
not You said they are holy? As we plead still more earnestly that they
may not only be saved, but truly and fully sanctified, vessels meet for
the Master’s use, we shall most confidently cry, O You who have laid the
name of holy on them, it cannot be Your will it should mean anything
less than all Your power and love can give. As in its light we confess how
little we have realized the holiness of our parentage and the holiness of
our children, the blessed heritage of holiness they have in us as
believing parents, we shall yield ourselves more than ever to train them
as holy to the Lord.
And so the word will exercise its mighty influence in our dealings with
our children. We shall think of our home and family as His home, the
dwelling-place of His holiness. We shall learn to look upon sin in our
children, upon the spirit of the world, or conformity to it, as at utter
variance with a child which the Holy God has set apart for holiness. We
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