“The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned” (Isa. 50:4).
A Word to Young People
Dear young folks, do you do that—do you awake each morning with an ear to hear what the Lord has to say? Do you read your Bible in the morning and ask God’s will for you for your day? Do you desire and willingly take instruction from God each day? Are you dependent, or do you just get out of bed in the morning and get ready for the day’s work without first getting on your knees in prayer and spending time reading the Scripture?
Oh dear young folks! Are you stronger than the blessed Son of God? When He was here as Man, He waited upon God morning by morning.
A Word to Parents
You dear young married folks and young families—do you have the reading of God’s Word in your home every day? Is the family gathered together each day to hear that precious Word read—are your children being brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?
When your children leave the sacred precincts of your home, will they be able down through the years of their lives, if left here, to look back upon that precious time in their life’s history when they knelt with father and mother in prayer in the safety of their home? Will they have the joy of remembering their father commending them to the grace and guidance of God each day? Oh dear fathers! Will that be one of the memories in the lives of your children? What a sacred heritage to pass on to your children!
A Word to All
“When He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray. . . . He was there alone” (Matt. 14:23).
How important it is to get away from the crowds for a while. Our blessed Lord did that—He did that as the dependent Man. It’s a good thing, dear parents, to get the family away in separation from the world—to take yourself individually and your children away from it to pray.
Are you neglecting that feature in your Christian life? Are you, fathers and mothers, neglecting that in your family life? It is through prayer that we make contact with the infinite power of God—when we kneel before Him in prayer. Just as the lights in this room would not turn on without power, so we have to be connected with the powerhouse if we are going to have power and victory in our spiritual life. Be sure, dear parents and dear young folks, that daily you get in touch with the infinite God. There must be personal contact, or else we will not have power to live—and remember too that sin always breaks that contact. “Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines” (Song of Sol. 2:15).
C. H. Brown (adapted)