The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

shall write holiness to the Lord upon our doorposts. We shall realize
that the first need of a parent, whose children God calls holy, is to be
very holy; that personal holiness is the indispensable condition for
educating a holy child. `Your children holy’ will lead us to look to our
own position, `Ye are holy in Christ Jesus,’ and to our own example and
conduct as the channel through which the knowledge and the love and
the power of holiness are to come to them. And as we hear the words we
have known only as spoken of Jesus used by God Himself of each child
as it is born, `that holy thing which is born of thee, ‘thy holy child,’ we
shall realize that nothing but a life in the holiness of God, a life entirely
under the leading of the Spirit of holiness, can fit us for watching over
and training the children God has given us.
O my God! my meditations on this word of the Holy Spirit have made
me feel deeply the need of His Divine light to teach me what it means to
You. Lord, show me, I pray, what the thoughts and the purposes of Your
heart are when You say to Your believing people, whom You have
sanctified in Christ, `Your children are holy.’ Show me, my God, how in
this word there is secured to my child all that treasure of sanctification
which is prepared in Christ, and which the Spirit of sanctification
makes our personal possession.
O blessed God! You are the Thrice Holy; the glory which the seraphim
praise and worship without ceasing is the glory of Your holiness; in it
all Your attributes have their perfection and their beauty. You have
revealed Yourself as the Holy One who makes holy, Your Son as Your
Holy One, Your Spirit as the Spirit of holiness. You call Your people Your
holy ones, and even of their little ones you say, `Your children are holy.’
O my God! Your words are never like men’s words, empty thoughts;
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