Basic HTML Version
Consecrate Your Family to God, and Look to Calvary,
Nobember 9
Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is
established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter
and former rain to the earth.
Hosea 6:3
, NKJV.
You should never separate Christ from your life and family, and close the doors
against Him by un-Christlike words and actions. There are those who profess the
truth who neglect family prayer. But how can you venture to go to your labor
without committing the care of your souls to your heavenly Father? You should
show that you trust in Him. You should consecrate your families to God before you
leave your homes.
Every prayer that you offer up to God in faith will surely be respected and
answered by your heavenly Father. When Abraham was told to go out into a place
which he knew not, wherever he pitched his tent he built an altar, and offered up
his prayer morning and evening; and the Lord said of Abraham, “I know him, that
he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the
way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.”
This is the very work that should be done in every family, but it is strangely
neglected. We want to live as in the sight of God in this world. It is of the greatest
importance that we constantly make preparation here for the future, immortal life.
We may have that life that measures with the life of God; if we are faithful, we shall
have an immortal inheritance, an eternal substance; we shall see the King in His
beauty; we shall behold the matchless charms of our blessed Savior.
We should feel the importance of educating and training our children, that they
shall seek and appreciate eternal life. Their will must be brought into subjection
to the will of God, and they must seek constantly to repress everything that is
evil in their natures. If fathers and mothers want their children to be Christlike in
disposition, they must set them the example. Your every act should be one to fit
yourself and your children for heaven, and you will have special help in the matter.
The Savior desires your joy to be full; therefore He tells you to abide in Him
and He will abide in you. Open the door of your heart, and let in Jesus and the
bright rays of His righteousness. He loves us with a love that is inexpressible, and
if at any time you begin to fear that you will be lost, that Jesus does not love you,
look to Calvary.—
The Review and Herald, August 5, 1890
.
[331]
334