Daily Readings for Holy Seasons. Easter to Whitsuntide, by J. Richardson (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: takes hold upon Thy faithfulness. Heavenly Father, hear us; for Jesus' sake. Amen. in SKonir Utah after Gal. iv. 6, 7.?" Because ye are soris, God hath sent forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ" The relationship justifies the language. Because men are sons they can cry " Father." It was not always so. "No more a servant," implies a servant once. The prodigal may forget home and parent; but parent has not fotgotten him, and the door is still open for his return. Oh ! precious love of God. How deep, how pure, how lasting, who can tell? The poor spendthrift's heart was bidding him say, " Make me as one of Thy hired servants;" but the warm welcome to the father's arms stopped his trembling wish, in the fulness of the unlooked-for blessing. It never can be right with the soul if this condition of servitude is sufficient. True, all God's children are glad to do Him service. The family life accepts thankfully what is the family law. But the effect of faith is freedom. The new spirit which has quickened and must illumine the soul is the Spirit of Adoption. " Thou art no more a servant, but a son." Some men are enemies, rebelling, resisting, defying, disliking. Those are the children of the wicked one?wearing his yoke, doing his business, involved in his ruin, if grace shall not set them free. Other men are servants?fearing, labouring, failing, with a consciousness of being unprofitable, and a heavy, dull expression of submission which comes from the inevitable and not from the desired. These men are washing with snowwater, and find their hands njever are clean. They are promising to pay when they are utterly bankrupt in all that God calls good. And ...