Daily Reading for Saturday, December 27, 2025
Scripture: Titus 2:15
“These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”
Meditation:
Reference(s):
1 The Desire of Ages, p. 253.
2 Spalding and Magan Collection, pp. 280, 281.
“[Jesus] spoke as one having authority. This characteristic set His teaching in contrast with that of all others. The rabbis spoke with doubt and hesitancy, as if the Scriptures might be interpreted to mean one thing or exactly the opposite. The hearers were daily involved in greater uncertainty. But Jesus taught the Scriptures as of unquestionable authority. Whatever His subject, it was presented with power, as if His words could not be controverted.”1
“Let no man complicate or mystify the plain directions by the highest Authority. Preach the Word: speak according to a ‘Thus said the Lord.’ with all the earnestness of the Holy Spirit. Never remove from your feet the gospel shoes. Be sure to keep them on. Your feet are always to be ‘shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.’ Observing carefully every direction that the Lord has specified in regard to the Christian armor, you will walk before Him softly, and will work discreetly.”2