Danger

From: Messages of God's Love: 1994

• 2 min. read • grade level: 5

This is a story of a mother duck and her baby ducks. We were vacationing at a lake called Kenogami. We really enjoyed seeing the wild ducks and the other water birds that live there.

One mother duck and her ducklings that we often watched always seemed to show up for breakfast and supper. You could hear mother duck quacking as she led her babies up the lake toward our campsite. Mother duck always gave a loud “quack,” but her babies just gave a little “peep.” She was very careful with her babies as she never let them get too close to shore. She knew there was danger on shore.

It made me remember that God has warned us of danger ahead. He has said in His Word, the holy Bible, “Flee from the wrath to come.” Matthew 3:7⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matthew 3:7). Romans 5:9⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. (Romans 5:9) says, “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

When those baby ducks got too close to shore, mother duck gave a loud “QUACK,” and they all dashed right back to her.

God has spoken very loudly to us too, through the Bible. Hebrews 1:1,2¹God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, ²Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1‑2) says, “God . . . hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.” His name is Jesus Christ.

Boys and girls, God says in 2 Corinthians 6:2²(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2), “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Just as those baby ducks were quick to obey their mother, will you be as quick to obey God? Isaiah 1:18¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18) says, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Come to the Saviour,

make no delay;

Here in His Word He has

shown us the way.

“Thy [the Creator’s] way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters.”
Psalm 77:19¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. (Psalm 77:19).

ML-06/26/1994

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