February 10
Our children are precious to us. If we are ‘normal’ people, with normal emotions we love our children better than life itself. The Bible takes note of our strong emotional attachment to our offspring. In fact, it says that the love God has for us is even better than the love parents have for their children (Psalm 27:10).
II Corinthians 12:14 specifies that it is the responsibility of parents to “…lay up…” of their resources for their children. The offspring can anticipate that their parents shall provide for them of their material possessions as well as of their wisdom and faith and love.
In Matthew 7:11 Jesus points out that if we can anticipate good things from our parents, we may even more completely trust that, “…your Father in heaven will grant good things to us when we ask them of Him.” This assures us that God loves us, provides for us, as does a father, and yet the love He extends to us exceeds that of an earthly parent.
If we can rely upon our earthly parents to do us good, to provide our needs, if we can know that it is their intention to leave their earthly resources to us when they have gone on to their reward, so may we depend that our heavenly Father will supply all we need in time and in eternity from the abundance of His treasures.
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