Parents can rely upon these promises of God with the full assurance of faith; for His promises are yea and amen.  Let them but lay hold upon the promises, and act upon the conditions of their fulfillment, and then leave the rest to God.  Abraham and Joshua, and David, acted upon this principle in their families.  Let the members of the Christian home do the same, and the blessing of God will rest upon them.

God promises to reward parents in this life.  We find their fulfillment in the peace, the hopes, the interests, and the pleasures of the faithful household.  The members are happy in each other’s love, in each other’s virtue, in each other’s worth, in each other’s hopes, in each other’s interests, in each other’s confidence, in each other’s piety, in each other’s fidelity, in each other’s happiness.  Thus God shall reward thee openly.  He has never said to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain.  “Verily there is a reward for the righteous.”  “This is the seed which the Lord hath blessed.”

The promised reward of faithful parents may be seen in their children.  They are in the true Christian home a precious heritage from the Lord.  Thus a parent’s faithfulness was rewarded in the piety of Baxter, and Doddridge, and Watts.  What a rich reward did Elkanah and Hannah receive by their training up Samuel!  And were not Lois and Eunice rewarded for their faithfulness to young Timothy?  What a glorious reward the mother of John Q. Adams received from God, in that great and good man!  God blessed her fidelity, by making him worthy of such a mother.  He himself was conscious that he was his mother’s reward, as may be seen from the following anecdote of him.  Governor Briggs of Massachusetts, after reading with great interest the letters of John Q. Adam’s mother, one day went over to his seat in Congress, and said to him: 

“Mr. Adams, I have found out who made you!”

“What do you mean?” said he.

“I have been reading the letters of your mother,” was the reply.

With a flashing eye and glowing face, he started, and in his peculiar manner, said:  “Yes, Briggs, all that is good in me, I owe to my mother!”

But God promises to reward faithful parents in the life to come.  Their great reward is in heaven.  The departure of every pious member of their home but increases the heavenly reward.  The little child that dies in its mother’s arms, and is borne up to the God who gave it, but increases by its sainted presence there, her joyful anticipations of the eternal reward.

  “And when, by father’s lonely bed,
  You place me in the ground,
  And his green turf, with daisies spread,
  Has also wrapt me round;
  Rejoice to think, to you ’tis given,
  To have a ransomed child in heaven!”