Royal Children: Knowing and Fearing the King

Mrs. Miersma is the wife of Rev. Thomas Miersma, missionary in Spokane, Washington. The children of God's covenant, as we have seen, are not first of all our children, but the children of a Heavenly King, and as parents we serve as His stewards or agents. At the heart of their instruction as royal children pulses the almighty, efficacious love of God in Jesus Christ. To this love, the royal children of God's covenant respond by faith, loving Him and living in godly fear, but because they are...