These are the words of an elderly woman who had found peace with God. “Oh, sir! I should be quite happy now, only I have one sore trouble which keeps me very low. I am so sad about MY DEAR CHILDREN. I was left with eight of them. I worked hard at the washtub and in other ways, morning, noon and night, to find bread for them. I did feed and clothe them all, but I am sure I don’t know how I did it. I had often to deny myself, both in food and clothing; and times were very hard with me.”
“Two of them died. I dare not think about them. God has forgiven me, but I can’t forget my sin against my poor children. I never taught them a word which could be of any use to them. The others are all alive, “They are all worldly, and none of them go to a place of worship, year in and year out. I never took them there, and how can I blame them? As soon as I was converted, I went down to my eldest son, who has a large family, and I told him what the Lord had done for me and entreated him to come here with me to the services; but he said he wondered what next, and he had no time. When I pleaded hard with him, he said he was sure I meant well, but `it was no go’, he liked his Sunday at home too well to go to church.”
“You know, sir, you can’t bend a tree. I ought to have bent the twig when I could have done it. Oh, if I had but led him to the house of God when he Was little! “Oh that I could have my time back again and have all my children around me as little ones, that I might teach them about my blessed Savior! They are all beyond me now. WHAT CAN I DO?” This was from C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography.
I think of you Linda concerned about AMY not that it was anything like this woman but it just touched my heart. This is the 636th devotion written for her knowing how our incense from our prayers gets stored up in His vials of blessings where He adds His grace and power to pour out on Amy at just the right time. “…the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden vials full of incense, which are THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS.” (Revelation 5:8)
-Bill Stockham