Lord placed Him in the home of Mary and Joseph. They must have been wonderful people. Mary, it says in the Scriptures, was full of grace. Joseph, His foster father, must have been a man of great maturity. It was our Heavenly Father’s pleasure to give to the Lord Jesus, as an infant, a human father and mother to care and provide for Him. In addition to providing proper food and health for our children, parents must provide a proper home. It certainly does not need to be a palatial mansion, but rather a hum ble abode where the Lord Jesus Christ has the pre-eminence. Do you fathers have a little bench at which your boy can play? Does he use a hammer or a chisel or some other tool? Oh, you say, “He’ll dull the chisel.” Yes, that is exactly what he will do. But it is far better to have a dull chisel and a sharp boy! Some times we do not understand this. I knew of a teacher in Minneapolis who told of one of her experiences. Little Teddy came to school on one particular day and declared to his teacher, “You know what happened last night? I went to my first Cub Scout meeting. I went to the door of Jimmy’s house and his mother opened the door. She told me, ‘Who are you ? Did you come to the Cub meeting?’ I said, ‘I sure did!’ Then she smiled and said, ‘Little Teddy, you just come right on in.’ ” He told his teach er about that three times that same day. You see, his own home was a place where his mother didn’t want him around. She was afraid he might disturb things and make them a lit tle disorderly. I ask you, “What is a home for, anyway?” I know a very fine Christian young man who has some very deep-seated problems in his inner soul. Although his pattern of life is circumspect, there are some scars on his psycho logical being. The background of his home was very fine, with godly par ents. They, however, did not under- 5
Tipsy. He tested the dogs as to the affect of alcohol upon their offspring. Nick and Topsy had no alcohol with their meals while Bum and Tipsy did. Checking the litters, the two which had no alcohol had 45 pups born to their union. Only 4 died and 90.2% were normal. Bum and Tipsy, on the other hand, only had 23 pups bom to their union. Nineteen of them died. It was Dr. B. G. Fritz, a research scholar in Europe, who wrote a book in 1939 which was entitled, “Alcohol, Another Germ Poison.” He declared, in reporting on 491 cases in investi gations of alcohol, that there is in jury done to the offspring as a re sult of the consumption of alcohol. Knowing these things, and being guided by them, is one of the values of a real Christian life. When we follow our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ becomes the Guide and Teacher of our lives, then He gives us a discernment as to moral values and character. When we place our lives and our children in His care, when we pray for our children while the mother is yet carrying it, in those early years the Lord will give His discernment and grace. He wants to help us to live a consistent, righteous Christian life. We need to pray that the Lord will help us to be wise and under standing so that we may protect our little ones from all the evils around us, as well as from the evils of our own intentions, ignorance or lack of discernment. C hapter T hree The New Testament speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ when He was only a little boy by saying, “And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him.” Our Saviour was brought into the world by the Heav enly Father to be the incarnate Son of God, to die for our sins, and to rise again for our redemption. The
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