The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

in His Word for parental duty, as we wait for His Spirit to guide and to
sanctify us for our work. Our whole nurture is to be the nurture of the
Lord.
In it the two parts God has joined together may not for a moment be
separated. In the life of the child its emotional nature, with all its
sensitiveness and impressionability, is first developed. For the due
regulation of this, the Creator has endowed it with two great powers,
that of willing and knowing. Training seeks to influence the will, as the
power which really makes a man; teaching supplies the knowing by
which the willing is to be guided and strengthened. The nurture of the
Lord is to bring up the child that he may be a vessel meet for the
Master’s use, with every faculty of spirit, soul, and body prepared for
doing His will. The training and teaching must work in harmony for
securing this blessed object. All instruction and admonition has the
forming of the will, of character as a completely fashioned will, of the
perfect man as its purpose.
The word education is so much used of what is merely instruction, that
I have used the word discipline to give the idea the apostle intended.
The foundation of a useful and happy life will be found in the habit of
order and self-control, the ready submission to law and obedience to
duty. When not impulse or circumstance, not our likes or dislikes, but
the steady purpose and power of knowing and doing right rule the life,
one of the chief objects of education has been attained. Discipline uses
the means, and exercises the power needed for securing this result. The
discipline of the Lord has not only reference to what may be considered
more directly religious, but to the child’s whole being, spirit, soul, and
body. Whatever contributes to the healthy development of the powers
God has bestowed on us, is included in the nurture of the Lord. There
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