“DAD, there’s a bear on top of the neighbor’s cabin,” exclaimed Tim excitedly.
Sure enough there was a young cub on top of the roof. Tim and his father cautiously approached the neighbor’s cabin and knocked on the door. “There’s a bear on your roof, Mrs. Smith,” they announced.
“Yes,” replied their kind neighbor. “He seems to have adopted us. When we first found him we could see he was in trouble. He had investigated a porcupine and his nose was full of quills. We coaxed him over to our cabin with some food and then Mr. Smith gave him a good dose of sleeping pills. While he slept we pulled out the quills. The bear is so grateful, now he wants to stay with us. When he’s not up on the roof he’s looking in the windows at us. Perhaps he wants us to know how grateful he is.”
The bear cub was grateful, but how often boys and girls, and older people too, who don’t know the Lord, are unthankful for all the things God has done for us. God sent His beloved Son into a world of sinners to die for them, and Jesus went to Calvary’s cross to bear their sins and to put them all away. But, sad to say, many do not want Him, they are too proud and go on their way as if they don’t need a Saviour. But He is the sinner’s only hope. God has no other way of salvation, “There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”
In the Bible one asks the question: “What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?” Then in the next verse he answers, “I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.” Psalm 116:12,1312What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? 13I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. (Psalm 116:12‑13).
Dear young friend, we can only show our gratitude to God for all He has done for us by first taking His beloved Son as our Saviour, and then seeking to serve and live for Him down here.
ML-06/09/1974