Sharing Spurgeon

It's a Spurgeon day.

*smile*

This reading was actually from a couple of

mornings ago, but it's so good I wanted to share with you.

I hope it blesses your heart as it did mine.

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"Your heavenly Father." Matthew 6:26

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 honour?"

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 sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron,

but a silver sceptre of mercy-

the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten

in the tender hand of him who wields it.

Father!

Here is honour 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 defence.

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."