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Daily devotions for 01-26-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: We Call Him Father
Evening Title: The Wonder of God
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Morning: We Call Him Father
"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."
Evening: The Wonder of God
"All they that heard it wondered at those things." --Luke 2:18
We must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very
difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the
soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express
itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet
it silently adores. Our incarnate God is to be worshipped as "the Wonderful."
That God should consider His fallen creature, man, and instead of sweeping him
away with the besom of destruction, should Himself undertake to be man's
Redeemer, and to pay his ransom price, is, indeed marvellous! But to each
believer redemption is most marvellous as he views it in relation to himself.
It is a miracle of grace indeed, that Jesus should forsake the thrones and
royalties above,
to suffer ignominiously below for you. Let your soul lose itself in wonder, for
wonder is in this
way a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and
heartfelt
thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid
to sin against
such a love as this. Feeling the presence of the mighty God in the gift of His
dear Son, you will put off your shoes from off your feet, because the place
whereon you stand is holy ground. You will be moved at the same time to
glorious hope.
If Jesus has done such marvellous things on your behalf, you will feel that
heaven itself is not
too great for your expectation. Who can be astonished at anything, when he has
once been
astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one
has seen the
Saviour? Dear reader, it may be that from the quietness and solitariness of
your life, you are
scarcely able to imitate the shepherds of Bethlehem, who told what they had
seen and heard,
but you can, at least, fill up the circle of the worshippers before the throne,
by wondering at
what God has done.
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