If also I believe the truth of God and endeavor to declare it, I may meet with much opposition, but I need not fear, for ultimately the truth must prevail. R then, I have spoken the truth and have for the present to suffer for it, I must be content to wait. Time tests it, but it right well endures the trial. The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Let us begin the day with our loving God, and wherefore should we not finish it in the same company, since mothers weary not of their children? We will not try to bear our grief alone that would be unkind to one so gentle and so kind. He will consider our weakness as she did, and He will put away our faults, only in a surer, safer way than our mother could do. He will not despise us for our tears our mother did not. Let us tell out our trouble, even though sobs and sighs should become our readiest utterance. 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. Coleraine Free Presbyterian Church.The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. Oh, what feet are the feet of faith, by which, following the hind of the morning, we shall ascend into the hill of the Lord! Up yonder we shall climb, even to the mount of God, the high places where the shining ones are gathered. One of these days we shall be called to higher places still. He can fit our foot for the crags so that we shall be at home where apart from God we should perish. Our Lord will give us grace to follow the most difficult paths of duty without a stumble. The hinds leap over rock and crag, never missing their footholds. Note that the Lord also gave him surefootedness. Think of that: the almighty God Himself becomes our strength! By and by he was called to the high places of the hills of conflict and he was no more afraid to go up than to go down. The prophet had to traverse the deep places of poverty and famine, but he went down hill without slipping, for the Lord gave him standing. This confidence of the man of God is tantamount to a promise, for that which faith is persuaded of is the purpose of God. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hind's feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. Saturday, JFaith's Cheque Book, Daily Entry C. Online Devotional - Faith's Cheque Book by C.H.
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