1. Point them to Christ
The most important way we can encourage younger sisters is to point them to our Saviour. We can do this by the way we live our lives and in conversations with them. Learn with your sister and engage in the blessed duty of honoring our parents and having servants' hearts, as you follow Christ's example.
2. Praise the virtues of femininity and modesty
Praise them for dressing in a way that not only pleases their Daddy and Mommy, but also their Father in heaven. The world's message is loud and bold on this issue, and as sisters we can use our special influence in a way that no billboard or program can, by speaking into young, impressionable lives with tender affection and praise for all that is truly beautiful. May we give them a picture, imperfect though it is, of Biblical beauty and feminine modesty in our words, actions and clothing.
3. Pray for them
We have the blessed opportunity to bear our younger sisters' burdens and pray that they would:
- love the Lord
- love His Word
- grow up to be virtuous women
- be faithful in all their duties
- be content in every circumstance
- remain pure in an impure world
- diligently seek Christ from their youth
We can also pray that the Lord would pour out a blessing for them as Rebecca's siblings beautifully did as recorded in Genesis 24:60,
"Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them. "
4. Provoke them unto love and to good works
What we love, we do, and what we do, we do zealously. Perhaps one of the most influential elements in the home is enthusiasm. What are you passionate about? What are we provoking in the lives of our sisters?
5. Enjoy and cherish them
Sometimes we all get caught up in daily living and sinfully forget to be thankful for all the blessing in our lives...perhaps our precious little sisters. Go so far as to purposefully delight in the tea parties, the lace and frills, the prancing, the little dolls laying about, the braids and pigtails. Appreciate the small things and the commonplace. How blessed we are!
