The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

Beloved parents! listen to the blessed tidings of which Noah is God’s
messenger to you: there is room for your child in the ark; the God who
saves you expects you to bring your child with you. Oh, let it no longer
be enough to pray and hope that your child may be saved, but accept in
faith the assurance that he can be, and act out in obedience the
command that you are to bring him in! And to each question as to how,
let the answer be taken deeper to heart, `Go thou, and thy house.’ Go in
and live in the ark; bring up and train thy little children there, as one
wholly separated from the world and dwelling there; God’s blessing will
use your training for their salvation. Abide in Christ, and let the child
feel that to be near you is to be near Christ; live in the power of the love
and the redemption and the life of Christ; your house will be to the
child the ark where Christ is known and found. Oh, if you have indeed
heard that most blessed word, `I have seen thee righteous,’ let it teach
you in the obedience of a joyous faith to fulfill the precept, `Come thou,
and all thy house, into the ark.’`Thou, and all thy house ‘ — may the
word live in the heart of each believing parent!
O Lord my God! I have heard your message, telling me that, since You
have accepted me as righteous in Your Son, You will have my children
saved too. I have heard Your voice of grace, `Come thou into the ark, and
thy house.’ Blessed be Your name for the assurance of the salvation of
his children it offers a parent’s heart!
Lord! do You Yourself open my eyes to see what Your Word sets before
me. Let me see in Noah the picture of a believing parent — walking
with You, believing Your word, obedient to Your command. Let me see
in the ark the type of my blessed Lord Jesus, a sure and a safe hidingplace
for me and my child. Let me see in the saving of Noah’s house the
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