AS OBDIENT CHILDREN .

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MARCH 3

 

I Peter 1:14

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves

according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

 
The believer should daily realize the pleasing fact that God is his Father; and this being the case he is treated as a child.
 
His heavenly Father has made ample provision for all his wants.
 
In Jesus he will find all he needs as a sinner, and all he requires as a saint.
 
Whatever is in Jesus is for him, and it is his duty as well as privilege, to receive out of the fulness of Jesus grace for grace.
 
As a child, he should listen to his Father’s voice, learns his Father’s will, and do his Father’s commands.
 
He has only to obey, his Father will provide.
 
He has to do with duty, not with consequences.
 
Only let him ascertain his Father’s will upon any point, and it becomes at one his duty, his honour, and his happiness to do it.
 
Believer, you have a Father;
  a Father that loves you more than tongue can tell;
  a Father who has blessed you in Jesus with all spiritual blessings;
  a Father who wishes you to cast every care upon him,
       to leave every burden at his feet, to trust him to do you good.
 
As an obedient child, resign all your will to his; and your safety is certain.
 

Lord my heart is bare before thee,

Let me now thy mercy prove;

Help me, for my wants implore thee,

Love me with a Father’s love.

 
James Smith