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Today's Devotional

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God—Romans 8:14.

How unspeakably wealthy are the implications of the great word “son”! If a son, then what holy freedom is mine! Mine is not “the spirit of bondage.” The son has “the run of the house.” That is the great contrast between lodgings and home. And I am to be at home with the Lord.

And if a son, then heir! “All things are yours.” Samuel Rutherford used to counsel his friends to “take a turn” around their estate. And truly it is an inspiring exercise! The Spirit shall lead me over my estate, and I will survey, with the sense of ownership, “the things which God has prepared for those who love him.”

I wonder if I have the manner of a king’s son? I wonder if there is anything in my very “walk” which indicates distinguished lineage and royal blood? Or am I like a vagrant who has no possessions and no heartening expectations?

“Lord, I would serve, and be a son!”

About the author and the source

John Henry Jowett (1864–1923) a famed pastor and author, served congregations in both England and the United States. He believed the gospel was the only hope for our times. Crime dropped remarkably when he pastored in Birmingham, England.