Last week I wrote about prayer, and today I want to share a few thoughts from my heart concerning the family. I don't know of anything on earth sweeter than a Christian family loving God and loving each other, but it does not "just happen". Proverbs 22:6 says: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
This "training" is a great responsibility and, at times, seems a little overwhelming to our young mothers, so we as grandmothers and great grandmothers have the blessed privilege to daily take our family to the throne of grace. The Master invites us to " . . come boldly unto the throne of grace" and pour out our hearts to God in prayer for them.
Then, perhaps, you will be blessed, as I was yesterday morning at church, to have your grandson testify he had awakened that morning with words of this wonderful old song running through his mind.
"Once I was bound by sin's galling fetters; Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain.
But I received a glorious freedom when Jesus broke my fetters in twain.
Freedom from all the carnal affections; Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions; Freedom from all that saddened my life!
Freedom from pride and all sinful follies; Freedom from love and glitter of gold;
Freedom from evil temper and anger; Glorious freedom; rapture untold!
Freedom from fear with all of its torments; Freedom from care with all of its pain;
Freedom in Christ, my blessed Redeemer -- He who has rent my fetters in twain.
Glorious freedom! Wonderful freedom! No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus, the glorious Emancipator -- now and forever He shall be mine!"
It is times like this, mothers and grandmothers, that bless us, encourage us to keep praying, and remind us again that when we stand before God at the judgment, it will be worth whatever it costs to have the family in our hand!
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