Paul says, "Learn first to show piety at home." Home is where the true character comes out.
Do you think so and so is a Christian? A proper response might be "I do not know, I never lived with him." So live that those who know you best will have the most confidence in you.
1. Consecrate your home. I know those who called in their pastor and friends, and by prayer and Christian fellowship, consecrated their home to Jesus. I know others who invited their worldly acquaintances and friends, and by partying and drinking, desecrated their new home. Let your home be consecrated as was the home of Martha and Mary, and Jesus will be your abiding Guest.
Some Christian parents allow their unconverted children to desecrate their home. God appoints the Christian father as priest in his own house, and will hold the parents responsible, as He did Eli, for the unrestrained sin of their children.
2. Let the voice of prayer be heard in your home and also "give God thanks" or "ask a blessing" before every meal.
3. Home life, as a rule, determines the future life. Learn the habit of being kind, courteous, polite, unselfish, patient and obliging at home, and you will certainly inspire a similar spirit in others.
4. Guard against impatience and the habit of complaining while getting ready for church, and do not dissect the minister or anybody else, on your return.
5. The renowned "two bears, bear and forbear," have made and kept peace in many families.
6. Remember that God designs that your home illustrate heaven. For your own sake, and that of others, "abhor" and "abstain from all appearance of" the "evil" of scolding, fretting, nagging, teasing, fault-finding and grumbling. Make home a paradise.
Are you given to criticism and looking sour, even at home? If so then I'll give you a long vacation on some solitary island until by loneliness and prayer, you imbibe a better spirit.
Memorize the "Golden Rule." Have it written on your heart, and in all the details of home-life, as a brother, sister, child or parent, seek to carry it out.
Be resolved that nobody will beat you in kindness, so long as it remains as cheap as it is.
One of these days we will be dying. Let us so live that when our eyes close in death our loved ones may say of us, "He never spoke an unkind word to me."
Brother Love
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