We readily perceive how He is a father but will He be as a mother also? Does not this invite us to holy familiarity, to unreserved confidence, to sacred rest? When God Himself becomes "the Comforter," no anguish can long abide. Of all comforters the child loves best his mother, and even full-grown men have found it so.ĭoes Jehovah condescend to act the mother's part? This is goodness indeed. How she enters into her child's grief! How she presses him to her bosom and tries to take all his sorrow into her own heart! He can tell her all, and she will sympathize as nobody else can. (Isaiah 66:13)Ī mother's comfort! Ah, this is tenderness itself. Lord, fulfill this word to my household!Īs one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. If they see the truth of our religion proved by our lives, it may be that they will believe in Jesus for themselves. Our integrity may be God's means of saving our sons and daughters. God will save them even after we are dead. Men think better of us as the sons of a man who could be trusted, the successors of a tradesman of excellent repute, Oh, that all young men were anxious to keep up the family name!Ībove all, he leaves his children his prayers and the blessing of a prayer-hearing God, and these make our offspring to be favored among the sons of men. The upright man leaves his heirs his example, and this in itself will be a mine of true wealth, How many men may trace their success in life to the example of their parents! A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons. If we walk before the Lord in integrity, we shall do more to bless our descendants than if we bequeathed them large estates. (Proverbs 20:7)Īnxiety about our family is natural, but we shall be wise if we turn it into care about our own character. Please contact customer care 1.888.977.4141 or for assistance.The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
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Author/Contributor Bio: Spurgeon, the great Victorian preacher, was a leading campaigner against Liberal Theology and one of the most influential people of the 2nd half of the 19th Century. He explains we have to present the promises of Scripture to God in prayer and faith, anticipating that he will honour what he has said.
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Spurgeon wrote this selection of readings to encourage believers to enter into the full provision that their relationship to Jesus entitled them to realise, on a daily basis.
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