Daily Reading for Sunday, December 22, 2024
Scripture: Titus 2:4, 5
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Meditation:
Reference(s):
1 The Review and Herald, February 19, 1895.
“Those who become careless in their home duties, deny Christ in their characters, and they go from weakness to weakness. They neglect also their duties to their friends and neighbors, and lose all realization as to their responsibilities as soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ. If they had kept the way of the Lord at any expense to their natural feelings, and had required obedience from their children, what a different picture would have been presented before the universe of heaven!
“Faithful work done in the home, educates others to do the same class of work. The spirit of fidelity to God is like leaven, and when manifested in the church, will have an effect upon others, and will be a recommendation to Christianity everywhere. The work of wholesouled soldiers of Christ is as farreaching as eternity. Then why is it that there is such a lack of the missionary spirit in our churches?It is because there is a neglect of home piety.”1