It will not do to be a saint abroad--and a devil at home!
(Charles Spurgeon)
There is a great importance in the way in which a man lives in his house. It will not do to be a saint abroad--and a devil at home! There are some of that kind. They are wonderfully sweet at a prayer meeting--but they are dreadfully sour to their wives and children. This will never do!
Every genuine believer should say, and mean it, "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart." It is in the home, that we get the truest proof of godliness.
"What sort of a man is he?" said one to George Whitefield--and Whitefield answered, "I cannot say, for I never lived with him."
That is the way to test a man--to live with him.
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For further reading: J.R. Miller's helpful short article, "Ministries that Bless".