I think I hear some of my readers say,
“What a strange family, and how happily they are dwelling together, and there are so many different kinds of animals!”
There is a terrier dog, a monkey, a lop-eared rabbit, a guinea pig, a white cat, a weasel, two rats, two wild rabbits, an owl, a jackdaw, a hawk and a jacobin pigeon. No doubt you wonder why the dog does not attack the rats, and the weasel the rabbits, and the cat the pigeon. The reason is, they have been trained to live peaceable together, and I expect the teacher has often to take the cane to them.
Even little children and grown up people, too, have trouble together, and why is it? It is because of sin in the nature, wrought upon by Satan, who is “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” Eph. 2:22Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (Ephesians 2:2). But let us remember, that that ugly, quarrelsome and disobedient spirit can be kept under by the rod, and we should be thankful when we are corrected, as it leads us into paths of peace and happiness.
God in his infinite love gave His Son, and it is only through Him we can have eternal life.
It is life which alone can bear fruit to God, and by which we can please Him, but remember that you cannot be suitable for God without accepting Jesus as the One whom God hath sent to die in your place that you might live through Him.
ML 08/23/1936