[b]Run to this heavenly Father![/b]
(Thomas Watson, "The Beatitudes" 1660)
"The Father of mercies and the God of all comfort." 2 Corinthians 1:3
Christians should look upon God under this notionthe Father of all mercy, sitting upon a throne of grace. We should run to this heavenly Father in all conditions!
We should run to our Father with our sins, as that sick child who, as soon as he found himself illhe ran to his father to help him, "My head! My head!" 2 Kings 4:19 So in case of sinrun to God and say: "My heart! My heart! O this dead heartFather, quicken it! This hard heartFather, soften it! Father, my heart, my heart!"
We should run to our Father with our temptations. A child, when another strikes him, runs to his father. So when the devil strikes us with his temptations, let us run to our Father: "Father, Satan assaults and hurls in his fiery darts at me! Father, it is Your child who is assaulted by this red dragon! Father, take off the tempter!"
"Cast all your care upon Him, because He cares about you!" 1 Peter 5:7. What a sweet privilege is this! When any burden lies upon our heartswe may go to our Father and unload all our cares and griefs into His loving bosom! "Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will support you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken!" Psalm 55:22
_________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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