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“OUR Father knoweth that ye have need of these things” ―the things of life’s necessity. What rest lies in this assurance! As a little child rests because it knows that its parent is aware of all its wants, so let us rest in our Father’s care.
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What a gracious title of our God is this: “The Father of mercies”! He is the originator―the First Cause of mercies. Our surroundings call for mercies every hour of every day. But He never fails in His mercies; His supplies are exhaustless. Yes; we love this His name: “The Father of mercies.”
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It is the cry of our hearts―the joy-cry of the child. We have received the Spirit of adoption; the Holy Spirit of God is within us, and by Him we thus address our God. This cry is the outcome of consciousness that we are children of God—an evidence of the intimate relationship in which we are brought to God.
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No human mind could have conceived such intimacy as this! The Son of God Himself has declared it. He would have it known to His own; He would have us live in the joy of it. Sin atoned for, death vanquished, peace made, and the believer brought into perfect intimacy with the Father and the Son.
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“Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me.” Nothing short of this will satisfy the heart and the love of Christ for us. Perfectly at home, in perfect glory, and the perfection of the bliss, being with Christ, and seeing His glory.