DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: January 26 God's people are doubly his children, they are his offspring by creation, and they are
his sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call him, "Our Father
which art in heaven." Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here is authority:
"If I be a Father, where is mine honor?" If ye be sons, where is your
obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority; an authority which does not provoke
rebellion; an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered--which would not be
withheld even if it might. The obedience which God's children yield to him must be loving
obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but
run in the way of his commands because it is your Father's way. Yield your bodies as
instruments of righteousness, because righteousness is your Father's will, and his will
should be the will of his child. Father!--Here is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in
love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and his scepter
becomes, not
a rod of iron, but a silver scepter of mercy--the scepter indeed seems to be forgotten in
the tender hand of him who wields it. Father!--Here is honor and love. How great is a
Father's love to his children! That which friendship cannot do, and mere benevolence will
not attempt, a father's heart and hand must do for his sons. They are his offspring, he
must bless them; they are his children, he must show himself strong in their
defense. If
an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care, how much more
does our heavenly Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music
than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word--Father!
There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire. I have
all in all to all eternity when I can say, "Father." |
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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