Today, I like to play dominos. But as a child I played with them in a different way that was just as much fun.
I remember sitting on the dining room floor with a hundred or more dominos spending hours lining them about an inch apart in some creative design—on top of objects and in circles—only to knock them all down.
The single tap of the first domino started a chain reaction of repetitive clack, clack, clacks as each domino fell. So exciting!
In the same way, our Godly influence has the capacity to impact others by lifting them up instead of knocking them down.
Titus 2:3-5 reminds us of the responsibility of Christian women to teach and to reach other women simply by our lifestyle. To the older women, the Bible says this:
be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience… that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
The next time you get the urge to act in a way that's unbecoming to Christ-like character, remember the domino effect. Remember that another woman is standing only inches behind you.
Don’t cause her to fall.