When last did you attend a Speech and Prize Giving Day or a Graduation Ceremony? ‘That’s my boy! That’s my girl!! are very joyful phrases in such occasions when the children make us proud. We all desire such distinctions and we earnestly pray they occur always. Just thinking of how Jesse must have welcomed the story of the deliverance of Israel from Goliath through the little David. Or of the joy in Hannah to see the progress in the life of the little Samuel from year to year whenever she comes to Shiloh. Guess how Mary must have felt when Jesus salvaged the potentially embarrassing situation in the marriage of Cana or Galilee. Our text gives a special prayer point in this respect, “Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel…” May this be our portion in Jesus name.
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One of the secrets of one mother whose children made her proud was her devotional life. Oswald J. Smith wrote in his book: ‘The Man God Uses’ on the devotional life of Susanna Wesley and her over a dozen children in the days when there were no schools. She had to teach them herself, sew clothes and provide their daily food. Yet, Susanna Wesley, every day from one O’clock until two, went into her bedroom, closed the door, and there on her knees spent the time alone with God. No child dare interrupts her during that hour. They all knew what she was doing. No wonder Susanna Wesley gave the world John Wesley and Charles Wesley – two great men of God. She and her children were really for wonders. Having parents and children who are for signs and wonders does not come by mere wishes but as a product of godly desire made known to God and carried out in life as the Lord directs. It involves God giving us children that are fearfully and wonderfully made. It involves parents that see their duty to train up their children in the way of the Lord. It also involves obedient children. Our prayer today is that both parents and children will play their roles in being for signs and wonders in our land.