Morning
Time: 9:12 AM PST
"Bring him unto me." --Mark 9:19
Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to
their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had
failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the
parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus' word, "Bring him unto me." 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." O
for more agonizing prayer on their behalf while they are yet babes! Sin is
there, let our prayers begin to attack it. Our cries for our offspring should
precede those cries which betoken their actual advent into a world of sin. In
the days of their youth we shall see sad tokens of that dumb and deaf spirit
which will neither pray aright, nor hear the voice of God in the soul, but Jesus
still commands, "Bring them unto me." When they are grown up they may wallow in
sin and foam with enmity against God; then when our hearts are breaking we
should remember the great Physician's words, "Bring them unto me." Never must we
cease to pray until they cease to breathe. No case is hopeless while Jesus
lives.
The Lord sometimes suffers His people to be driven into a corner that they
may experimentally know how necessary He is to them. Ungodly children, when they
show us our own powerlessness against the depravity of their hearts, drive us to
flee to the strong for strength, and this is a great blessing to us. Whatever
our morning's need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of
divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow, He delights to comfort us. Let us
hasten to Him while He waits to meet us.