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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing
words so simple that they may be adopted by the little child, yet so
comprehensive that their significance can never be fully grasped by
the greatest minds. We are taught to come to God with our tribute of
thanksgiving, to make known our wants, to confess our sins, and to
claim His mercy in accordance with His promise.
“When ye pray, say, Our Father.”—Luke 11:2.
Jesus teaches us to call His Father our Father. He is not ashamed
to call us brethren.
Hebrews 2:11
. So ready, so eager, is the Saviour’s
heart to welcome us as members of the family of God, that in the very
first words we are to use in approaching God He places the assurance
of our divine relationship, “Our Father.”
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Here is the announcement of that wonderful truth, so full of en-
couragement and comfort, that God loves us as He loves His Son. This
is what Jesus said in His last prayer for His disciples, Thou “hast loved
them, as Thou hast loved Me.”
John 17:23
.
The world that Satan has claimed and has ruled over with cruel
tyranny, the Son of God has, by one vast achievement, encircled in
His love and connected again with the throne of Jehovah. Cherubim
and seraphim, and the unnumbered hosts of all the unfallen worlds,
sang anthems of praise to God and the Lamb when this triumph was
assured. They rejoiced that the way of salvation had been opened to
the fallen race and that the earth would be redeemed from the curse of
sin. How much more should those rejoice who are the objects of such
amazing love!
How can we ever be in doubt and uncertainty, and feel that we are
orphans? It was in behalf of those who had transgressed the law that
Jesus took upon Him human nature; He became like unto us, that we
might have everlasting peace and assurance. We have an Advocate in
the heavens, and whoever accepts Him as a personal Saviour is not left
an orphan to bear the burden of his own sins.
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God.” “And if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer
with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” “It doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we
shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.”
1 John 3:2
;
Romans
8:17
.