Bibledoorajar: A Great Compliment

     My family had a new baby born on yesterday. As I held her, I wondered if she would live and prosper as God would have her prosper in this world of decay. We did what we knew to do. We prayed that we, her family, would be wise and hold before her His ways and decrees. We honored Him for the gift of her and appealed to Him to help her be His. Help us Lord, her believing family, to be true to hold You before her in the same way we hold her father and mother, her grandparents and her great grand parents. Forgive us when we get "put out" at family shortcomings and help us show Your love and requirement for respect at all times.
     Moses told the people of God and taught them ALL the decrees and ordinances that God required to be upheld in the new land into which they were going. They were not to leave out one thing nor were they to add one thing. The old among them probably remembered them as they were declared, but many of the young were hearing them for the first time because they had not been passed down and honored. For all of them, they heard Moses say, "Beware for yourself and greatly beware of your soul, lest you forget the things that your eyes have beheld and lest you remove them from your heart all the days of your life and make them known to your children and your children's children..." Deuteronomy 4.

    God wanted the people of faith to be commended as wise in the ways they honored their God. It was to be the greatest of compliments.

God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the children are led to know
Christ in His beauty who loves them so,
Homes where the altar fires burn and glow;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

Baylus McKinney