A Living Testimony

It needs to be constantly remembered for our help and encouragement and admonition and warning, that the Lord's thought is that every Christian family or household should be one of these Life testimonies in the realm of death, and against the family life the whole force of the devil will be centred because of the value to the Lord of households or families standing in the power of that risen Life. So this means that there has got to be a household responsibility; that is, that all the members of a Christian household have got to recognise that the testimony not only rests with them as individuals, but that they together as a family or household represent that testimony. They must have an understanding about this together, and meet everything on this ground, in that all those peculiar difficulties which arise in a family life, in domestic life, which may arise in no other realm so acutely, will be worked upon; aggravated by all the powers of evil in order to destroy the very special testimony that a family can bear as to the risen Life of the Lord.