The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

Father! who do much more surely than fathers on earth give good gifts
to their children, give Your Holy Spirit to Your children, to make even
their body Your temple, fulfill Your wondrous promise to Your child. Let
Your Holy Spirit dwell in me. If it please You to make me the mother of
a child, oh, let him be filled with the Spirit from the womb. Let me be
filled with the Spirit. And let my child be born only for this one thing,
that he may be great in Your sight, and a blessing to all around him.
Amen.
Thirty-Fourth Day – A Mother’s Surrender
`And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it
unto me according to thy word.’ Luke 1: 33.
We have often had occasion to notice the wonderful oneness of mother
and child, and to what extent the former, in her life and character,
influences and decides what the child is to be. The life she imparts is her
own life, in the deepest meaning of the term. When God gave His Son to
be born of a woman, this law was not violated, and the mother He chose
for His Son was doubtless all that grace could make her to be the fit
vessel through whom He should receive His human nature and
disposition.
And so, just as Jesus Himself is in everything our example, so we may
naturally expect that in His mother God has given us one of His
servants who may be an example to our mothers. If the child Jesus be an
example to our children, there will be something for mothers to learn
from His mother. She to whom the heavenly messenger said, ‘Hail! thou
highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women;’
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