Family & Children

Woe and Weal

Micah 7:9

… a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him." Have you never felt your own heart plead for your child when you have said …

Things Unknown

Jeremiah 33:3

… No child of God would do that. Children do not look into their father's secrets—it is only thieves who do that. I doubt your claim to …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… they not His children? Now, if a physician failed to exercise his skill on a stranger, yet surely he will not upon his own child! There is nothing …

The Hairs of Your Head Numbered

Matthew 10:30

… He was very wise but He was gentle as a nurse with her children. He was very holy and far above their sinful infirmities but He condescended to …

'Take Away the Frogs'

Exodus 8:8

… but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Now Isaac was not the child of Abraham's flesh. He was born according to promise, when …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married …

The Rising Sun

Malachi 4:2

… There are children of God who walk in darkness, dear children of God, too. Indeed, I am inclined to think that every child of God gets into the …

The Heart—a Gift for God

Proverbs 23:26

… Every- one that gives God His heart becomes God's child—and a father esteems his children to be treasures—and I reckon that God sets a higher …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… He goes to the child of God and pours into his ear this dark insinuation, “Thy God has forsaken thee quite; thy Lord will be gracious no more …

Jonah's Object-lessons

Jonah 4:6-8

… They were a sort of kindergarten to which the child-like spirit of Jonah had to go. He needed to be taught as children in their infancy are …

Causes and Cure of Fainting

Isaiah 40:29

… as a nurse is with the little child committed to her charge. Hence the Lord entrusts power to His fainting children because He knows that they will be …

Joy Over the Repenting

… but child’s talk, and ye are little children, and ye cannot understand the greatness of eternal bliss; and therefore God has given you a child’s horn …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… There is a poor child and his father and mother have both gone away and left him. But the Divine Father comes along, picks the child up and …

The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted

James 5:11

… If He did mark my foolish despondencies, what could I say but, "Lord, have mercy upon Your foolish child"? When your child has a fever, it may be …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… A child may sin against his father, and still be alive; but falling away is like cutting the child’s head off clean. Not falling merely, for then …

Joy Born at Bethlehem

Luke 2:10-12

… Come, ye little children, ye boys and girls, come ye; for he also was a boy. “The holy child Jesus” is the children’s Saviour, and saith still …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… When we become God's children, He treats us as a father treats his child. You know what you do with a boy who is disobedient. He asks …

Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements

Matthew 15:23

… It was a most fervent plea with God that the man's wife and child might belong to Christ written 54 years back—and before that child was …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… child," but he does expect you to be grieved with him! Children are believers in the "final perseverance" of parental love—they expect always to be your children …

Overcoming Christ

Solomon 6:5

… But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… It is a terrible truth, for it says, “the children of the kingdom shall be cast out!” Now, who are those children? I will tell you. “The children …

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… bears and forbears with His weak and sinful children and is gentle towards them as a nurse with her child. Although our own observation has proved this to …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… It is most of all surprising that God's children should ever doubt Him—especially those who have been so highly favored as some of us have been …

Safe Shelter

Psalm 91:4

… Not only is protection from danger vouchsafed, but a sense of comfort and happiness is communicated, making the child of God feel that he is at home under …

Christian Baptism

Colossians 2:12

… Again, (and this is by far the most important point of difference), the very great majority of Christian people think infant children are fit and proper subjects for …

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… Then how can they be His children? God has many children and they have many infirmities, but He never yet had a dumb child. They can, every one …

The Fainting Hero

Judges 15:18

… God delights to watch the way that His children walk, even though their steps may falter and totter, for they are often like little children learning to walk …

The Sweet Uses of Adversity

Job 10:2

… God delighteth in his saints; and when a man delights in his child, if it be a child noted for its brightness of intellect, he delights to see …

No Fixity Without Faith

Isaiah 7:9

… We know that a child who does not believe his father's word is not a loving and obedient child. Faith in God is, next, a sure proof …

A God Ready to Pardon

Nehemiah 9:17

… The law does not suspend its operations though that man may be the husband upon whose life the bread of many children may depend, though he may have …

The Perseverance of Faith

Matthew 15:28

… rejected—that no destitute child shall ever be turned away. Suppose somebody could prove—which, of course, they cannot—that scores of destitute children were turned away ? Why …

Love and Jealousy

Solomon 8:6

… What a mighty instinct of love glows in the mother's heart! You recollect that famous story of the mother whose child was taken from her by a …

Morning, January 26

Mt 6:26

Morning, January 26 Go To Evening Reading “Your heavenly Father.” Matthew 6:26 God’s people are doubly his children, they are his offspring by creation, and they …

Evening, August 25

Ac 8:37

… God makes no difference in his love to his children. A child is a child to him; he will not make him a hired servant; but he shall …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… We use not vain repetitions as the heathen do and, therefore, when we have to express the same idea, it is natural to the living child of God …

None But Jesus—Second Part

John 3:18

… You ask, “What if a child of God should fall into sin?” I answer, the child of God does fall into sin; every day he mourns and groans …

The Soul's Best Food

Isaiah 55:2

… God enables His children to perform their spiritual duties—by giving them spiritual meat. I may go even further and say that if the child of God did …

Small Rain for Tender Herbs

Deuteronomy 32:2

… s children are like our children and need little and often, rather than much and seldom! There is a loaf of bread and there is the child—you …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… Why wilt thou wander hungry and thirsty? Come to my table O, my child, for I love my children to be there and to feast upon the mercies …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… comes over God's children about praying for little things is another instance of their not knowing Christ. "Oh," says one, "if my child were dying, I could …