Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Psalm 128:3. Children and youth are God’s peculiar treasure. FLB 261.2 When two compose a family, …
A Union for Life
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matthew 19:6. The marriage vow … links the destinies of the two individuals with bonds which nought but the hand
The Blotting Out of Sins
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Revelation 3:5.
The Incense of Righteousness
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Ephesians 5:2. The showbread was kept ever before the Lord as a perpetual
Sorrow With Hope
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13. To the afflicted ones I would say, be of good comfort
A Goodness in God’s Justice
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28. How repugnant to every emotion of love
Man’s State in Death
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now