1336. The Home, and Rewards

The Home, and Rewards

"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her" (Pro_31:28).

No greater reward ever befell parenthood–a faithful husband and a virtuous wife than the possession of children who have done virtuously.

No greater curse could come to the father and the mother than a son or daughter, who has wandered afar in sin.

1. Take the case of David. He had children who were a joy to him, but Absalom broke his heart. Do you marvel that when the news of Absalom's death came, he cried, "O Absalom, my son, my son! Would to God I had died for thee!"

2. Take the case of Hannah. How she rejoiced in Samuel! How Jochebed must have rejoiced in Moses! How Zacharias and Elizabeth must have rejoiced in John!

There is no greater blessing upon parenthood than the possession of children who are saved and set apart for the service of God.

In our younger days, when we were known as the boy preacher, how often was our heart touched, as some mother, with tears streaming down her cheeks, would say, "How I wish that my boy was a preacher, but he has broken my heart; he has wandered away and gone into sin."

We saw a broken-hearted mother dying. Her son came in about two o'clock in the morning, He had been having his fling of shame. We met him at the door and told him his mother could not last but a few hours. We saw him as he bent over her to kiss her. She folded her hands around his neck, and, looking into his face said piteously: "My dear boy, your mother is dying and you have killed her!" How she pled with him to mend his ways and to receive Christ as his Saviour.

As we stood one day in front of the home of Dwight L. Moody, at Northfield, we saw the form of his aged mother, as she moved about. How we thanked God for the memory of D. L. Moody. What joy, what comfort, what reward had come to his aged mother. The noble life of her evangelist son, had rejoiced her beyond measure.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR