Under the Parsonage Roof by Althea S. Miller EXCUSES
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D orotheann’s voice was full of long ing. “ I wish I could get you on ‘Queen for a Day,’ Mother.” “Why, sweetie? I’m sure I’m not queen material according to their standards.” “You are, too. I just saw that pro gram on TV. The chosen lady gets beautiful clothes. I’d love to see you get a new wardrobe. You could surely use one.” As she vainly tried to smooth out the skirt of a well-worn dress, Mother continued a little wistfully, “You are an observant girl. Teaching every day has surely put my clothes through the mill. But we’ll have to be satisfied with what I have. I’m afraid no ‘Queen for a Day’ program will ever come to my rescue.” “What excuse would she give any way to get you on that program?” Ten-year-old Kent suddenly put his two cents worth into the conversation. “You don’t give excuses, stupid! All you need is a good reason. Mama has had nine children. That gives her nine reasons—good ones, too. And three- fourths of us are pills, you especially.” “What ‘excuse’ would I give?” Mother asked herself as she stood over the ironing board. She smiled in spite of herself. “Nine children can hardly be called ‘excuses,’ but they certainly supply reasons for a mother’s ward robe looking rather weary. But I don’t want to waste time wishing for clothes to cover this body when it is far more important that I wear the ‘robe of righteousness’ to grace this spirit of mine which Christ has so graciously saved. Doesn’t the Word enjoin the believer to ‘be clothed with humility’ (1 Pet. 5:5)? Father God, let me be clothed in garments which are beautiful to Thee. “Of one thing I am sure, excuses are not to be part of the dress of God’s children. If anything, excuses are thinly veiled fruits of the flesh. In failing to obey our Lord complete ly, too many of us Christians employ them, deluding ourselves into the be lief that God will see reason behind our default. “ ‘Knowing . . . that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand . . .’ (Rom. 13:11,12). Lord help me to repudiate every ex cuse for Thy testimony’s sake.”
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