YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

 

October 1st

 

Matthew 6:32 

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)

for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have

 need of all these things. 

 
When ye pray say, “Our Father.”
 
When ye are cast down remember you have a Father in heaven who loves you, cares for you, has given His word to you, and is ever ready to do you good.
 
It is truly blessed to begin this month, and every month, believing that we have a Father in heaven; and that “like as a Father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him; for He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust.”
 
Let there be no reserve between us and our heavenly Father, but let us communicate everything to Him; let there be no hard thoughts of our Father encouraged; but let us take His own word, which sets forth His own immutable mind, and rejoice.
 
Our heavenly Father knoweth what we need, He hath provided all we need, He will give all He has provided, but He will be acknowledged and sought unto.
 
Nothing is too hard for Him to affect, nothing is too great for Him to produce, nothing is too good for Him to bestow upon His people.
 
What a mercy to have a Father, and such a Father, in this inhospitable world!
 
To Him let us carry, and with Him let us leave all our cares, grief, and woes.
 

Father, on me Thy grace bestow,

To call Thee mine while here below,

To love Thee as Thy law required,

To this my longing soul aspire;

May every word and action prove

My soul is fill’d with heavenly love.

 

James Smith