29 September 2009
Encouragement this morning…
Posted by Daniel under: Children; Uncategorized .
Thinking this morning about John 4:46-54, and was encouraged by the picture of how Jesus dealt with parents during his ministry. There John tells how Jesus healed the son of the official from Capernaum. In Mark 5:35-43 is the story of Jesus bringing Jairus’ daughter back to life. And in Mark 7:24-30 a young girl is delivered from a demon.
What encouraged me was that Jesus listened to the pleas of parents desperate for their children to live, and He healed them. I know there are no guarantees that my children will become Christians, but Jesus’ words in John — “Go, your son will live” — give me reason to hope that he will listen to my requests to heal my children from their spiritual sickness and give them eternal life.
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Mother Says:
1 October 2009 at 9:32 am.
Dear Daniel,
In reading your post of yesterday, I remembered a devotional by Spurgeon a few weeks ago on the subject of children. If you want to read it, it is September 17th-morning. The verse is Mark 9:19 “Bring him to me”. Just a short quote here:
Children are a precious gift from God, but much anxiety comes with them. They may be a great joy or a great bitterness to their parents; they may be filled with the Spirit of God, or possessed with the spirit of evil. In all cases, the Word of God gives us one receipt for the curing of all their ills, “Bring him unto me.”
As grandparents, we pray earnestly that Christ would give them hearts to respond to the gospel at an early age and then to live in such a way as to glorify Him. And, as parents of adult children, our prayer is that they would see their desperate need for Him in all situations but also see His faithfulness and desire to meet them at the foot of the cross “to help in time of trouble”.
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