Spurgeon: September AM
* 09/17/AM
"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.