Daily text, Sunday, September 25. 2016

[Queen Esther]

They found him in the temple.—Luke 2:46.

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Jehovah gives us Christian meetings to help us learn to stick together. We have often read the encouragement found at Hebrews 10:24, 25. One purpose of these meetings is to “consider one another so as to incite to love and fine works.” It is significant, though, that the meetings are provided so that we can be “encouraging one another, and all the more so as [we] see the day drawing near.” As a youth, Jesus set a good example of appreciation for such arrangements. At the age of 12, he was with his parents at a large spiritual gathering. At one point, he was missing but not because he had wandered off to associate with other youths. Instead, Joseph and Mary found him engaged in a spiritual discussion with teachers at the temple. Attending Christian meetings is not something that only adult Christians can and should do. If you are a youth, do you take advantage of meetings to develop a bond of closeness with your spiritual family? w14 12/15 3:16-18