HAVE any of our readers ever taken a trip to the seashore? If so, perhaps you have seen some little
animals fastened tight to the rocks. They have white shells that are shaped like tiny tents with openings at the top. These little animals are called "barnacles," and they are cousins of the lobsters and crabs.
A baby rock barnacle swims around in the sea and is no bigger than the head of a pin, but it has six legs. Soon two eyes and two feelers appear. After a while it settles down and fastens itself to something solid and stays there the rest of its life. Sometimes ships have to have barnacles cleaned off their bottoms. Barnacles often fasten themselves to other animals that live in the sea.
An old lobster may be almost covered with barnacles, or a whale may be the home of thousands of these little animals.
It is a lesson for us to think that the barnacle is looking for a solid dwelling place, is it not? I wonder if our readers are looking for a solid resting place, too, for their precious, never-dying souls? We can tell you of One who has never failed the blessed Lord Jesus—and He has died and risen again so that we call dwell with Him forever in His borne above, it we put our trust in Him.
Be in earliest, dear reader, to find Jesus as your Saviour for He has said,
Then you will he able to sing,
"On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground sinking sand."
Memory Verse: "SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR." Isa. 551.i
Messages of the Love of God 7/6/1952