CHILDREN;
CHILD DEDICATION

When our little girl came to us, we dedicated her to the Lord in a morning service, but that was nothing. My own personal dedication of that child was a prolonged, terrible, sweaty thing. I finally said to God, “Yes, Lord, you can have her.” I knew that God wasn’t going to let her die, for I had learned that lesson years before with her two older brothers.

But the thing was this—I didn’t know what He wanted, and it was a struggle to give up, to yield.

Later, in giving a testimony in our church, I said, “The dearest thing we have in the world is our little girl, but God knows that He can have her whenever He wants her.”

After the service someone came and said, “Mr. Tozer, aren’t you afraid to talk like that about your little girl?”

“Afraid?” I said, “Why, I have put her in the hands of perfect love and love cannot wound anyone and love cannot hurt anyone. I am perfectly content that she is shielded in the life of Jesus Christ, His name being love and His hands being strong and His face shining like the beauty of the sun and His heart being the tender heart of God in compassion and lovingkindness.”

1 Samuel 3:18; 1 John 4:18

I Talk Back to the Devil, 87.