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Our High Calling — Day 258 of 365 Obedience an Element of Greatness, September 15 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Ephesians 6:1 . Jesus has given to childhood and youth a perfect example. Study the Pattern, Christ Jesus, and copy it if you would be like Him—pure, holy, sinless, and undefiled. Study the childhood of Christ. He was the Son of God, yet the Bible record tells us He returned from Jerusalem and was subject unto His parents.... Jesus, the world's Redeemer, did as He was told even if the task was not agreeable to His...

Our High Calling — Day 257 of 365 Teach the Source of True Happiness, September 14 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 . By their neglect to exercise proper restraint, many parents are creating great unhappiness for their children. The youth who are left to constantly seek for pleasure in amusement or selfish gratification are not happy, and never can be happy while following this course. Fathers and mothers, teach your children that the only way to be truly happy is to love and fear God; and enforc...

Our High Calling — Day 256 of 365 The Home Training Ground, September 13 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Psalm 119:35 . Men have taught that God's law has been done away. Were this the case we would have no standard of character, and would have nothing to show us God's righteous claims. We should be adrift upon an ocean of uncertainty, and have no guide in dealing with the solemn responsibilities of the family relation. But it is in the family relation that we receive our training in dealing with our fellow men in g...

Our High Calling — Day 255 of 365 Make Your Mark in the World, September 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 . The period of childhood and youth—how much is bound up in these years of probation! God desires that you shall improve this time, dear youth, by obtaining a fitness for the work. If you need an education, set yourselves to work with a determination to get one. Do not wait for an opening; make one for yourselves. Take hold in any s...

Our High Calling — Day 254 of 365 Graces Increased by Exercise, September 11 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Titus 2:7, 8 . A healthy, growing Christian will not be a passive recipient among his fellows. He must give as well as receive. Our graces are increased by exercise. Christian society will furnish us with pure air to breathe, and in breathing it we must be...

Our High Calling — Day 253 of 365 A Friend to the Friendless, September 10 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Proverbs 27:9 . We should have the love of Christ in the heart to such a degree that our interest in others will be impartial and sincere. Our affections should take a wide range, and not center simply upon a few who flatter us by special confidences. The tendency of such friendships is to lead us to neglect those who are in greater need of love than those upon whom we bestow our attentions...

Our High Calling — Day 252 of 365 You Must Choose Your Company, September 9 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. 2 Corinthians 6:17 . The true Christian will not choose the company of the unconverted. If Christ is formed within, the hope of glory, we cannot enjoy the malarious spiritual atmosphere which surrounds the souls of the irreligious.... Your acquaintances who are utterly averse to spiritual things are not refined, ennobled, and elevated by the practice of the truth...