The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

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But there may be other causes. A Christian parent may not be wanting in self-control, and yet fail. The reason will very possibly be found in neglect of the duty of riding. With some this may come from an entire ignorance of the solemn place a parent occupies. They have never thought seriously of the extent to which the souls and wills and characters of the children are in their hands. They have never taken any trouble to think carefully of the work entrusted to them. They may pray earnestly at times that their children may be saved; they know not that it is of more importance to pray daily that they themselves may be fitted to guide their children aright. With others the neglect of the duty rests on wrong principles thoughtlessly adopted. They admire a strong will; in the waywardness or self-assertion of a child's will they often see nothing but cause of amusement or admiration. They wish to see their child grow up a strong, bold character, able to do and dare; they would not for anything weaken his will. They know not that a wayward will is a curse; and that a will that masters itself to obedience is the truly strong will. No wonder that the children later on should be disobedient or unruly. And then with others the neglect of the duty comes from simple weakness and sloth. They admit that it is their duty; but it is so hard; it takes so much time and thought. It is so trying to their love to punish or to thwart the child, and, under cover of the name of tenderheartedness, the authority with which they have been entrusted of God is neglected and abused. Let parents take time and thought to realize: to rule a child is as distinctly God's command as to love it or to care for it. The interests of parent and child demand it; the time and labour spent in cultivating this grace will be richly rewarded. But still there are parents in whom neither of the causes of failure mentioned hold good. They do rule themselves, and they do seek to rule their children, and yet have failed. The cause must be sought deeper: the 258
want of the Divine blessing must be sought in the want of true faith and consecration. There are some children easily ruled; there are others of nervous temperament or wayward disposition who appear to defy control. 'The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.' Education is a work in which the parents are meant to be God's servants, His fellow-workers; but to work really with God means to walk closely with Him. It is to the soul that is wholly given up to Him, and seeks undecidedly to do His will, that the power of faith will be given to hold fast the covenant, and to live in the assurance that God Himself will do the work. Let there be but simple, childlike heartsearching, to see if there has not been in our aim with our children desire for worldly honor or position; the spirit of the world is the most secret but most certain hindrance to true faith. Let the surrender of ourselves and our children—not only to God's mercy, to save, but to God's will, to rule and use— be complete and unreserved; we shall find God to be our ally, our covenant-helper in training the children; and with Him on our side we must prevail. To have had power with Him in prayer is the sure guarantee of victory with the child. Parents! the work entrusted to us is holier than we know. The precious instrument, so delicate, so wonderfully made, so marred by sin already, and so exposed to its power, is of such inconceivable worth. To take charge of an immortal soul, to train a will for God and eternity, surely we ought to shrink from it. But we cannot. If we are parents, the duty is laid upon us. But, thank God! sufficient grace is prepared and promised too. If we do but give up our home and our life to God for Him to come in and rule, He will Himself take possession, and by the gentle influence of His Holy Spirit bow their will to Himself. And the discipline which our thus ruling the children brings will be the best preparation for our ruling in God's house, with that rule of which Jesus speaks: 'He that is 259
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commanded. This surrender of faith
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male and female. In the home on ear
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How terrible the curse and the powe
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God created man in His own likeness
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parents study with care what Holy S
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within the Paradise Regained, where
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comes. And further, it was now to b
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Beloved parents! listen to the bles
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natural seed becomes the heir of Go
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promised child, teaches me that thi
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We have here the first full revelat
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expressed thus: `God has establishe
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provide for their children too, and
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taking away of the foreskin of his
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people, that only the very express
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the faith of the parent rises, the
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often unconsciously bow to the stro
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those around you (1 Tim. 3: 5, 6),
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hand shall You require it; send it
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pleading surety would be no less ri
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Ninth Day - Faith Hiding the Child
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kingdom are thus drowned in the mig
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It has often been pointed out that,
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the cover and protection of the blo
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O most blessed Savior! may the powe
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faithfulness, and to the efficacy o
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God’s purposes — this, namely,
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Twelfth Day - Sanctify the Firstbor
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The principle involved in this is o
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children. Is not this the reason th
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needs to be studied in earnest pray
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lessing, in the fellowship of the F
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guarded, in the tone of gladsome an
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Of the ten, this one is especially
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But are we not in danger of repress
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O my God! I come again to You with
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of parental love to gain access for
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kingdom of grace, in dependence upo
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The first thing on the part of the
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thousands of the children of Israel
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the seeking His glory, be the one d
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There is one thing more we must spe
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have seen God. When he asked the an
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Eighteenth Day - A Consecrated Chil
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the fear of sinning in loving it as
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such a spirit animated each parent
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‘must’ of God’s will. The fea
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what I feel it within my power to d
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Twentieth Day - The Father as Inter
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fearing father, and how it would wa
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delivering from it, be to all paren
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In the words of our psalm, children
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And now comes the teaching as to wh
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O my God! I ask for grace to take t
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the training in that way was not wh
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to give too many commands, or to gi
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Lord! give me the spirit of wisdom,
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law. As he grows out of it, it is s
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the evil and choose the good, is of
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fathers, the children would openly
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speak the words without inquiring f
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Especially we ask You, gracious Lor
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Testament times. When God made His
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along with the world. It must be th
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what it teaches us of God’s purpo
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And it will equally inspire us with
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O Lord our God! we thank You again
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death He broke the power of Satan a
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principle of all its conduct: uncon
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Blessed Lord Jesus! who say of the
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to live as one of its subjects. But
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come each day. Coming out of the wo
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Twenty-Ninth Day - A Mother’s Per
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e born again, changed from being th
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Mother! come nearer, tarry with Jes
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which is around him. The curse of s
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To this end let us take in the thir
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that we may rightly understand that
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terribly checked by the example and
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little ones. Learn to see in them w
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quickening power, that works in us
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confession of its sinfulness, and t
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We find here, at the very opening o
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hope of a holy motherhood: `He shal
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Father! who do much more surely tha
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`Behold the bondmaid of the Lord.
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ondmaid of the Lord, and will belie
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promise to the seed of Your people.
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home; and the words come spontaneou
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utterly and entirely be the Lord’
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mother was to appear in the temple
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Be assured that in such a presentin
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Thirty-Seventh Day - The Baptism wi
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taught what sin is and what repenta
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children will no longer be, what it
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And then, when we think of our chil
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institutions; we shall boldly claim
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greatly fear to enter. Many, as the
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taking away a child, God meant to t
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