Family & Children

"Forget You, I Will Not"

Isaiah 44:21

… Bunyan's parable of a child, who is in a room, and a stranger comes in and says, "Come here, child, I will cut off your finger." "No …

Jesus Near but Unrecognized

Luke 24:16

… The fullness of the union of the child of God with Christ and the Glory that is to come, which already casts a halo about the saints, they …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… The old man took the fair-haired child upon his knee and ran his fingers through its locks, and said, "Young child, God keep you from the sin …

Why Should I Weep?

Luke 23:27-31

… But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming in …

Wheat in the Barn

Matthew 13:30

… We can very well suppose that godly men and women might be willing that their unconverted children should dwell with them in Heaven, but it cannot be, for …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… Other people might have come in and seen the child, and said, "Many children are as interesting as this poor woman's babe." Ay, but as these men …

Joy, Joy Forever

Psalm 5:11

… When I was a child and went to school, I remember learning out of a book called, "Why and Because." Things one learns as a child stick in …

The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish

John 10:27-30

… them." When a child of God does not know whether he is a child of God or not, his Father knows His own children and the Great Shepherd …

Unbelief Condemned and Faith Commended

Deuteronomy 32:20

… Would you take pleasure in such a child as that? No, but one of the beautiful things about your little children is just this—that they have not …

The Sorrowful Man's Question

Job 3:23

… His happy children, for whom he daily cared and whom he had tenderly loved, were all destroyed in a moment—while they were feasting in the house of …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… a child to-morrow. When you get into trouble you will be saying, “God has changed.” Then let God’s Word speak to you as unto children, and …

Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts

Psalm 139:17

… most erring of those who are His own children. He looks upon them as a father looks upon his child, with intense affection, pitying them when they stray …

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… At last the Lord, whose glory tabernacled in Zion, appeared to grow weary of keeping house with such ungracious children and unfaithful servants, and he broke up the …

Choice Portions

Deuteronomy 32:9

… Have you been born again from above? If you have not, you are not the children of God, and you have not a child's portion. Have you …

Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced

Numbers 14:11

… an expression may be used, to God's own children! You could not make a true-hearted child suspect his father of falsehood. If he heard such an …

A Suitable Watchword

Psalm 12:1

… Nothing brings a man's temper into his face like an injury done to his child. And God, as a Father, cannot endure to have His children hurt …

Alto and Bass

Luke 1:53

… children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Happy is the father of such a child! Happy …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… agony, can Jesus forget? Oh, no! Our children may forget us, but the mother remembers how she suffered for the child and she loves it for the very …

The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness

Ephesians 5:11

… First, because we are God's dear children and, therefore, we must be imitators of Him. You, a child of God, and having fellowship with the unfruitful works …

Out of Nothing Comes Nothing

Job 14:4

… we are, will certainly have for our children those whose tendencies are towards evil. Though there is, in every child, much that is very beautiful, which a mother …

Waiting, Hoping, Watching

Psalm 130:5

… That is a child's prayer—it cries to its mother or its father—"Out of the depths have I cried." But it was not like a child …

Blessings Traced to Their Source

Psalm 87:7

… Come, you children, hearken unto me. This man of God has made his confession to the saints and now he tells it to the children. There is nothing …

Gladness For Sadness

Psalm 90:15-17

… The next consolation is also a very rich one—gladness at the Revelation of God to our children—"And Your glory to their children." If our God will …

Good News For You

Luke 10:33

… children of wrath." "We were by nature the children of wrath even as others." Yet the Gospel came to such. Can you see anything hopeful in a child …

Reform

2 Chronicles 31:1

… It is true I find the Lord Jesus saying, “Suffer little children to come unto me,” but that affords no precedent for carrying a little child to the …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… He was born as other children are born, save that His mother was a virgin. He was fed as other children were fed, upon curds and honey, the …

The Treasure of Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… of his children, the manner in which he dresses his servants and those of his household. It is not to be expected that the child of the poor …

Two Wilderness Incidents

Numbers 21:1-6

… clothing—but will you, a child of God, thus misbehave yourself? Why should you be groveling in the dust with the children of this world, when you should …

Christ's Rest and Ours

Isaiah 11:10

… And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. They shall not hurt …

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… Indeed, if Thou hadst then cast out the child of the bondwoman Thou hadst cast us out, but now through sovereign grace all is altered with us. Blessed …

Comfort for the Tempted

1 Corinthians 10:13

… of His children's trials because if they were continued longer, they would have not a good, but an evil effect upon us. If a child must be …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… children of God. This he is by adoption and grace—but peacemaking is a sweet evidence of the work of the peaceful Spirit within. As the child of …

Prayer Perfumed with Praise

Philippians 4:6

… even anticipate the wishes of such a child, and before he calls you answer him. May we be such children of the great God. III. And now, in …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… neglecting their own children? Mother, what if the voice of your child's blood should cry to God against you? You trained that child up without the fear …

Songs in the Night

Job 35:10

… If you are, you are no child of God, for the child of God acknowledges that he has no right to the least of God's mercies, but …

Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast

Hosea 6:3

… You have lost your wife, what if He takes away the child? Or, good mother, you have buried a dear child and your darling's going to Heaven …

"There Is Forgiveness"

Psalm 130:4

… Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. That is a very …

If So—what Then?

1 Peter 4:18

… of Him to Whom we teach our children to pray— "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child." In Psalm 50:22 there is this dreadful …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… You would not suffer your child to endure a needless pain if you could remove it—neither does God willingly afflict, or grieve the children of men. He …

Shall and Will

Psalm 91:15

… Our God compares Himself constantly in Scripture to a Father. ' 'If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your …