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Today’s Manna

Daily Reading for Thursday, May 16, 2024
Scripture: Proverbs 25:11
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
Meditation:

"How many words are spoken in lightness and foolishness, in jesting and joking! This would not be so did the followers of Christ realize the truth of the words, 'Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.'

"The vision given to Isaiah represents the condition of God's people in the last days. . . . As they look by faith into the holy of holies, and see the work of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, they perceive that they are a people of unclean lips—a people whose lips have often spoken vanity and whose talents have not been sanctified and employed to the glory of God. . . . If they will humble their souls before God, there is hope for them. The bow of promise is above the throne, and the work done for Isaiah will be performed in them. 1

"Be fragrant in your words. Remember that you are either a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. Let us be as fragrant flowers. Let the love of Christ pervade your lives. Let your words be such that they will be as apples of gold in pictures of silver."1

Reference(s):

1 The Review and Herald, December 22, 1896

2 In Heavenly Places, p. 177