Spurgeon Meditations

 

Your heavenly Father.

Mat 6 26

God's people are doubly His children they are His offspring by creation and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him Our Father which art inheaven. Father! Oh what precious word is that. Here is authority: "If I be a Father where is mine honour?" If ye be sons where is your obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority; an authority which does not provoke rebellion; an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered--which would not be withheld even if it might. The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way. Yield your bodies as instruments of righteousness because righteousness is your Father's will and His will should be the will of His child. Father!--Here is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face and His sceptre becomes not a rod of iron but a silver sceptre of mercy--the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it. Father!--Here is honour and love. How great is a Father's love to his children! That which friendship cannot do and mere benevolence will not attempt a father's heart and hand must do for his sons. They are his offspring he must bless them; they are his children he must show himself strong in their defence. If an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care how much more does our heavenly Father? Abba Father! He who can say this hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word--Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire. I have all in all to all eternity when I can say Father.


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