Over the past four years Anne and I have been the benefactors of four beautiful grandchildren. They have lit up our lives in ways that are incredible.
I have to praise God for His wondrous dealings that Anne and I have in our own children who in turn have also been the benefactors of God's Grace in these beautiful offspring of their God ordained marriage union:
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What a treasure we have when God blesses this union with Children.
Children that because of the sin curse may well have defects which God never intended from the beginning of Creation however they still are our children and are loved dearly.
If you have been blessed with children of your own remember whatever the condition that they find themselves in they are still yours, given of God for your blessing.
So cherish them as did the Lord Jesus Christ when He called them to Him:
Mark 10:14 - But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
The desire of Anne and I is and has always been for the Glory of God through the Salvation of our kids (and ultimately their own kids as well) through giving by God of His only begotten Son.
God gave His Son that my sons and daughters could be saved from the penalty of Sin
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
The debt that we owe to God is immense and we are not worthy of such Love yet in His Love we find Salvation:
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Pastor Peter Skillen
Braehill Baptist Church
Belfast
www.braehillbaptist.org
braehillbaptist@gmail.com
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