0356. The Father's Special Gift

The Father’s Special Gift

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" (Luk_11:13).

Where is the parent who does not seek to provide good things for his children? What a pleasure it is to the parent to give gifts on special days. The joy the child has in getting his gifts, is more than equalled by the joy the parent has in giving.

Let us thank God for the greatest of all gifts–the gift of the Holy Spirit. Should God search ‘mid all His treasures, He could never find a gift so holy and so good as this, the supreme gift of His Father heart. God knew our need, and He supplied it.

We are journeying through a waste and desert land; we are strangers and pilgrims; the way is beset with many a pitfall, we cannot walk alone. The Father sends us an escort for our way. The blessed Holy Spirit is our guide and our protector and our helper–He is ever the Paraclete, the One at our side.

We are beset with doubts and fears. Many things are dark. The age wears on apace, and we cannot see the light. The enemy seems to be getting the mastery. Evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. The apostasy from the faith is on, the world seems sweeping on, in its Christ-rejecting and man-deifying way–the child of God looks on and wonders what it all may mean. But our Father has given us a gift–the Holy Spirit, and He makes plain the way, dispels our doubts and calms our fears. He shows us the better things to come, when Christ shall reign. He places in our hand the word of prophecy, made more sure, which shines upon our darkened path and pierces thru the gloom to a brighter day.

We have in our hand a Book, a wondrous Book, the Word of God. It is so full and yet so deep. We cannot fathom it. It far outreaches our human ken. But the Father has given us a gift–the Holy Spirit, and He "teaches us all things," and shines upon the Book, and makes its deep things plain.

We have a Lord, but we have never seen His face. He is altogether lovely and the fairest among ten thousand–but we want to know Him and to understand His glory, and His grace. The Father gives us a precious gift, the Holy Spirit, and He reveals the Christ of God. He makes Him more and more precious to our hearts.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR