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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
from the Lord to understand His way, and to keep it, He will lead you,
not away from your home, but back to it.
Poverty No Sin—If you are one of those who are the light of the
world, that light is to shine in your home. Poverty has been your lot,
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but this you could not help, and it was not sin. But your mind has
been of that cast which has led you to view everything in too intense
a light. Here you have lessons to learn at the feet of Jesus; you need
to trust more to Jesus, and be less anxious; you need to have genuine
faith in the promises of God. Yet you are to be a laborer together with
God, cultivating your mind, that you may bring to the education and
training of your children a restful spirit, a loving heart, that you may
imbue them with pure aspirations, [and] cultivate in them a love for
things honest and pure and holy.
God’s Care for Children—Never for a moment suppose that God
has given you a work that will necessitate a separation from your
precious little flock. Do not leave them to become demoralized by
improper associations and to harden their hearts against their mother.
This is letting your light shine in a wrong way altogether. You are
making it more difficult for your children to become what God would
have them and win heaven at last. God cares for them, and so must
you if you claim to be His child.
In time past you have erred in having too great an anxiety for
your children. Your trust has not been fully in God, and you have
indulged them more than was for their good. And now you leave them
to themselves. What sort of experience is this? Certainly it has not
God and truth for its source. You are offending God in claiming to be
led by Him and yet neglecting your duty to your children....
Rights of Husband and Children—When we give ourselves un-
reservedly to the Lord, the simple, commonplace duties of home life
will be seen in their true importance, and we shall perform them in
accordance with the will of God. Oh, my sister, you may be bound
about with poverty, your lot in life may be humble, but Jesus does not
forsake you because of this, neither does He lead you to forsake your
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family for this or for any other cause. God has made you a trustee, a
steward, in your home. Seek to educate yourself for this work, and He
will be by your side to bless all your endeavors, that by and by, when
the reckoning time for the administration of your trust shall come, He
may say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”