The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

Especially we ask You, gracious Lord! to give us great singleness of aim
in training our children for You alone. Oh! that the indwelling of the
blessed Spirit may not be thought of as something hardly to be
expected, but as the one gift the Father loves to bestow, and the first
thing the child needs to grow up into a noble man and Christian. Lord!
let our training of him, as Your exclusive sacred property, to know and
say he is Yours, be our one desire. And we can count on this, that each
child we so consecrate to You, You will, by Your Spirit, consecrate for
Your own. May we so experience how wonderfully the parent’s work
and the Spirit’s work blend in securing the seed of Your people for
Yourself. Amen.
Twenty-fifth Day - From Generation to Generation .
'My righteousness shall be for ever, and My salvation from generation to
generation.'—Isa. li. 8.
When we speak of a generation in the history of man, we think of the
shortness of human life and the continual change among men. `One
generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth
abides for ever.’ What a contrast between man and the heavens above,
or the mountains around him — always the same. What a contrast, still
more, between man, whose life is but a span, and the unchangeable, the
everlasting God.
We will find in God’s Word that it loves not so much to contrast as to
link together these opposites; it lifts man out of the transitoriness of
life, to find his refuge in the unchangeableness of God. `As for man, his
days are as grass; but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to
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