The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

lesson that in the home-life faith is just as much the power of blessing,
and that in all my relation with my family Your word still is, ‘Fear not,
only believe.’ O Jesus, You are not only the sinner’s, but the parent’s,
Friend; in nothing will You delight so much to reveal Your saving and
sanctifying power as in the family life which You have redeemed to the
service of Your kingdom.
O my Lord! I do pray that You to teach me and all parents how
impossible it is to train our children aright, or be a blessing to them,
except as we live the life of faith. Open our eyes to see all that You offer
to our faith, and how our love to them, our influence on them, our
education and our training, may all be inspired and purified and
perfected by the faith in the power of Your finished redemption and
Your abiding presence. Show us how all our own feebleness and our
fears, all the waywardness of our children and all the wickedness in the
world that tempts them, can be fully met by Your power and Your love,
if we only trust You. O Lord Jesus! do teach us to know You as the Savior
of our children from their very birth, and in the homes we have to form
for them. And let our whole life and relation with them, day by day,
every day and all the day, be in the faith of the Son of God, who loved
us, and gave Himself for us. Amen.
Thirty-Ninth Day – The Chamber of Death
`And all wept and bewailed her. But Jesus said, Weep not;
she is not dead, but sleepeth.’ Luke 8: 52.
In God’s great school of tribulation there are many classes. In the
department where God trains parents, there is one room which all
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