DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 27-28; Ezekiel 44; John 20:1-18
Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? Judges 13:12
Manoah asked this question after being made aware that he and his barren wife were going to have a son, a future deliverer of Israel. The Lord responded, “Of all that I said unto the woman, let her beware,” then He reviewed again the behavioural limitations of the Nazarite vow. The Lord did not provide Manoah and his wife a “how to” manual on child rearing, but rather affirmed their upright conduct that should be lived out before their son. May each parent’s life be an example of the way their children should go (Prov. 22:6).
—W. A. Henderson
My soul He doth restore again; and me to walk doth make,
Within the paths of righteousness, even for His own name’s sake. —W. Rous