DAILY READINGS: Exodus 31; Psalms 79-80; Acts 18:24 to 19:20
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. Romans 12:10
In the entrance hall to Wychnor Manor in South Staffordshire hangs a wooden carving of a side of bacon. It is placed there as a memorial to a former landlord’s stipulation that if any tenant could prove that he and his wife had not disagreed for a whole year, they would be given a side of bacon. Apparently there never were any claimants! So many disagreements could be avoided if we were to emulate the injunction of Paul in our verse today. Let us be slow to wrath and swift to hear. Quick to praise and hold others dear (James 1:19). —Brian Powlesland
The sacred writer crowns the whole:
“Who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!” —Charles Haddon Spurgeon