The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

higher than the New, and the blood which then was for the saving of the
house here to be only for the individual? and not be sprinkled on the
houses too? How the Christian parent might then envy the Jew, who
enjoyed the privilege, as he looked at the sprinkled blood, of knowing
that he had done it to the saving, not only of himself, but his household
too. And the Christian parent would not have the right thus, in definite
and assured faith, to claim the blood for his children? God forbid!
Christ, the Lamb of God, is still `a lamb for an house’! His blood may
still be sprinkled upon the door, that the destroyer enter not in. In the
new covenant, and with the precious blood of Christ, the principle still
holds good it is the believing father’s right and duty in faith to
appropriate the blood for his whole house. His faith has the Divine
warrant, and will be rewarded with the Divine blessing.
Let me endeavor henceforth to live in this faith, fully to realize this
privilege. As I think of the precious blood, and seek to walk in the
nearness to God which it gives, let me claim its cleansing power for my
house as well as myself. Let me be assured that my faith as parent has
power and does secure a Divine influence. Daily there is the sin of my
house defiling and darkening. Even my sin, pardoned though it be,
might justly, in its consequences, be visited on my children. The fulness
of the application of the blood will correspond to what faith claims. I
have in nature transmitted sin and death — through me they inherit it.
Thank God, as a father, I may also transmit the grace and blessing of
redemption.
Not only my own soul, but my house, can daily be kept under the
sprinkling and cleansing of the blood. And each time I enter my door, or
think of Satan entering it, in the light of heaven I may see it sprinkled
with the blood of the Lamb. Parents and children together stand under
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