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To Be Like Jesus — Day 44 of 365 Commandment-keeping Families Glorify Christ, February 13 Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray. Proverbs 22:6 , NRSV. Children must be taught that they are a part of the home firm. They are fed, and clothed, and loved, and cared for; and they must respond to these many mercies by bringing all the happiness possible into the family of which they are members. Thus they become children of God, missionaries in the home circle. If parents neglect the education of their children, they deprive them of that whi...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 43 of 365 Obedience to Be Rewarded, February 12 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20 , NKJV. Children who dishonor and disobey their parents, and disregard their advice and instructions, can have no part in the earth made new. The purified new earth will be no place for the rebellious, the disobedient, the ungrateful, son or daughter. Unless such learn obedience and submission here, they will never learn it; the peace of the ransomed will not be marred by disobedient, unruly, unsubmi...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 42 of 365 Happiness Guarded by God's Law, February 11 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh. Romans 8:3 , NKJV. The happiness of human beings must always be guarded by the law of God. In obedience only can they find true happiness. The law is the hedge which God has placed about His vineyard. By it those who obey are protected from evil. In transgression Adam became a law to himself. By disobedien...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 41 of 365 Christ, the Model of True Obedience, February 10 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? Romans 6:16 , NKJV. Adam did not stop to calculate the result of his disobedience.... With the aftersight we are privileged to have, we can see what it means to disobey God's commandments. Adam yielded to temptation, and as we have the matter of sin and its consequences laid so distinctly before us, we can read...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 40 of 365 Obedience Through Grace, February 9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 , NKJV. God desires us to reach the standard of perfection made possible for us by the gift of Christ. He calls upon us to make our choice on the right side, to connect with heavenly agencies, to adopt principles that will restore in us the divine image. In His written Word and in the great book of nature He has revealed the principles of life. It is our work to obtain a knowledge of the...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 39 of 365 Christ's Perfect Obedience Can Be Ours, February 8 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19 , NKJV. [Scripture tells] the story so important for every human being to know. On the one hand is presented the disobedience of Adam, with its consequences; on the other, the obedience of Christ. The Garden of Eden was disgraced by Adam's disobedience; but as by that one transgression many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One, ...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 38 of 365 Israel Pledges to Obey God's Commandments, February 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” Exodus 24:7 , NKJV. Preparation was now made for the ratification of the covenant, according to God's directions. [ Exodus 24:4-8 quoted.] Here the people received the conditions of the covenant. They made a solemn covenant with God, typifying the covenant made between God and every believer in Jesus Christ. ...