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Father as Priest; Mother as Teacher, June 13
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s
teaching.
Proverbs 1:8
, R.S.V.
The love that was in the heart of Christ is to be in our hearts, that we may
reveal it to those around us. We need to be daily strengthened by the deep love of
God, and to let this love shine forth to those around us....
Parents, you have a church in your home, and God demands that you bring
into this church the grace of heaven, which is beyond computation, and the power
of heaven, which is without measure. You can have this grace and this power if
you will. But you must educate yourselves in accordance with your baptismal
vows. When you took these vows, you pledged yourself, in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that you would live unto God, and you have no right
to break this pledge. The help of the three great powers is placed at your disposal.
When in the name of Christ you ask for grace to overcome, it will be given
unto you; for the promise is “Ask, and it shall be given you” (
Matthew 7:7
). Yes,
seek God for aid. If you are in perplexity, do not go to your neighbors. Learn
to carry your troubles to God. If you seek you will find; if you knock, it shall
be opened unto you. But this means faith, faith, faith. Exercise living faith in
Christ....
The father is the priest and the house-band of the home. The mother is the
teacher of the little ones from their babyhood, and the queen of the household.
Never is she to be slighted. Never are careless, indifferent words to be spoken to
her before the children. She is their teacher. In thought and word and deed the
father is to reveal the religion of Christ, that his children may see plainly that he
has a knowledge of what it means to be a Christian....
In our work we are not to strive to make an appearance. We are to look upon
Christ, beholding what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called the sons of God. And what a joy, what a power, will be with us
as we do this! It will not be merely the excitement of feeling, but a deep abiding
joy. We are to present the solid truths of the Word of God, that these truths may
be impressed on the hearts of the people, and that men and women may be led to
walk in the footsteps of the Redeemer....
I pray that your eyes may be anointed with the heavenly eyesalve, that you
may discern what is truth and what is error. We need to put on the white garments
of Christ’s righteousness. We need to walk and talk with God.—
Manuscript 66,
1905
.
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